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Frohman

RAM Usage Issue

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I was playing OA (Combined with ARMA2) with my friend, we made a quick scenario with just the two of us as civi's with torch equipped weapons on Takistan with ambient vehicles and civilians. Very epic experience, very smooth and overall, very awesome.

About an hour into the scenario I started to get intermittent black screen + "Receiving..." screens which would last for about 15 seconds, during which I could still hear everything happening fine around me, including my friend's reports that everything was fine on his end (I was hosting). Later, everything started stuttering (FPS stutter - audio was fine) and the "Receiving..." screens started appearing more and more. I activated my keyboard's spec monitor and noticed that the RAM usage was just under 70%, and when it reached 70%, it would start stuttering madly and the "Receiving..." screen would appear. I stopped the game manually due to this and decided to make this thread.

Major Info:

Map was Takistan

No mods, using Ambient Civilian Vehicles and Ambient Civilian modules

Night Time

No issues leading up to the stuttering

Observed occurring only around 70% RAM usage (it would not go lower than this after this point)

I have 4 gigabytes of RAM (Due to the conditions observed, I will assume that this is the only information from my specifications that need to be posted)

My conclusion is that there was some kind of memory leak that lead up to RAM being irreversibly (game-wise; the usage went right down after I closed the game) increased, causing it to go into meltdown when it reaches it's allocated RAM threshold.

I can try to do some tests of this later.

Any feedback would be nice and if anyone needs any more info on the issue, just ask.

Cheers,

Froh

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Operating system would be good to know to, but from the issue I'm guessing you are running a 64bit os. Try going to the beta section of these forums and download the beta patch from there. If that doesn't fix the issue then another patch will hopefully be released soon that will solve it.

In the mean time you can use the flush command (hold left shift and hit the minus key on the keypad then type "flush" without quotations)

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