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[amk320]

 All the posts I've found when searching on this topic are from 2009.

I just purchased the game (Ultimate Edition) about a week ago and am experiencing what I believe to be a memory leak issue.  Performance is fine for about 30 minutes of play, then slowly tapers down, coupled with a MAJOR increase in load times.  Exiting and restarting fixes the issue, but that's an abnormal inconvenience to accompany a video game purchase.

I'm running the public patch 1.05, which was the only way I was able to fix the initial issue I had with all the included DLC being unauthorized after a fresh installation.

System Specs
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i7 860 2.8ghz
evga P55 SLI
GTX 260 x2
8g memory
Windows 7 64 

and the system drive (where the game's installed) is an OCZ Vertex 60gb SSD.


Why the crap performance?  Is there no patch to fix this business?  Makes me wary for DA 2's performance.  

[amk320]

I was also not aware the free Blood Dragon plate that came with the game would disappear from my inventory as part of another bug. This is my first foray back into PC gaming in a long time. Not pleased that I've encountered -

1) The longest installation in history. On an SSD, with the above specs, the game took over four hours to install, and would not let me attempt to multi-task. So my computer, which doubles as my.. everything.. was unusable for hours. I've never encountered a game that took so long to install, or.. 24g of space for that matter. Whatever. So long as it's awesome.

2) But all the DLC that created the above problem? Yeah, that's unauthorized. If you want to use what you should be able to use right out of the box, you need to download a beta patch that may or may not fix it, and may or may not greatly increase your load times.

3) In checking my replies, I've discovered that the Blood Dragon armor disappearing from my inventory is yet another bug with a corresponding sticky and litanous page of instructions to fix what should already have been fixed in the two years of patches since the game's release.

Oh, and I can't play for more than 30 minutes without the game starting to run like Crysis on a x386, with load times that would put the first generation Playstation to shame.


/vent off

[Gorath Alpha]

This forum is for game players to seek suggestions from one another to technical matters, not to provide a convenient moan and groan pulpit. For that, you take it to the Off Topic forum. If you want to complain formally, don't tell US in here. We didn't cause you any difficulty, and we don't want to hear the noise.

Every forum page has a Help Column at the bottom center. Go there, please.

[amk320]

Was not the topic of my post in regards to a memory leak?

A post also ended with two questions, the primary purpose of both to... seek suggestions from other game players on technical matters.

Seems pretty on topic to me.

[mcsupersport]

There is a known issue with a phantom memory leak that shows up on multi-core processors that have more than two cores. One work around is to set affinity to 1-2 cores depending on what works on your machine.

[amk320]

I'm not familiar with how to do that. Could you elaborate?

[sami jo]

There are detailed nstructions linked in the solutions round-up thread pinned to the top of this forum.

[amk320]

Upon examination of the two threads in the sticky, it appears (to me, at least) that these users were experiencing more crashes than poor performance. Though I have had two or three crashes to the desktop, it has not become so inconvenient a problem as the increased load times, for which I can find no sticky on point.

They're the most frustrating of the technical issues I'm having, as 1-3 minute loads can be really annoying if you're replaying a battle you're losing in less time than that. If I restart the game, the same load times drop drastically. Normally they're so quick I can't read the tips that appear on the load screens.

[RaenImrahl]

amk320 wrote...

Upon examination of the two threads in the sticky, it appears (to me, at least) that these users were experiencing more crashes than poor performance. Though I have had two or three crashes to the desktop, it has not become so inconvenient a problem as the increased load times, for which I can find no sticky on point.

Correct... those posts were made long before the 1.05 beta patch was released for public testing.  Changing processor affinity, for example, seems to help some people abrigate the frequency of crashes.  I don't believe it helps with load times, per se.

amk320 wrote...
They're the most frustrating of the technical issues I'm having, as 1-3 minute loads can be really annoying if you're replaying a battle you're losing in less time than that. If I restart the game, the same load times drop drastically. Normally they're so quick I can't read the tips that appear on the load screens.

The issue with dramatically increasing load times is reason why Patch 1.05 is still in public BETA.  Right now the dev's are not calling it a memory leak, although they agree the symptoms are similar to a traditional memory leak.  It actually appears to be an issue involving code introduced in one of the recent patchs-- something that affects processor demand rather than memory addresses, perhaps. 

While they continue to work on it, you have a few options, none ideal:

1) Do a clean reinstall of the game and keep it patched only to 1.04; use one of the methods linked in the Solutions Roundup to authorize your DLC once, then pay logged out thereafter.

or

2) Get in the habit of pausing the game and rebooting more frequently.