RO slowing down Win XP

[Arkenion]

Hello,

When I play RO for about two or more hours, my computer gets really slow. It is definitely not because the computer itself is too slow, I'm playing in safemode and have really high FPS, I could even play with everything on highest and shader 4.0 and I'd still have about 60 FPS, but I don't do that because of another problem. Anyway: The strange thing is that even when I disconnect from RO, the problem remains. It's like I was running way too many programs and the computer would be overloaded.

I'm a real PC noob. Is it the Ram that is overused, or the CPU?
Whether it is this or that, it must be a bug or something because it's surely not the computer being too weak. Also, I didn't have this problem until some weeks ago. Can't really tell when it started to occur though.


Some general computer informations:

Win XP SP3
Intel Core 2 Duo 3.00 GHz
2 GB Ram
NVidia 8800 GT (newest drivers)
RO in safe-mode

[bois]

I have a similar problem. I notice you have 2GB RAM. The problem I identified is that RO gradually bloats from around 550-600 MB RAM to about 1.32- 1.4GB of RAM. At this stage the game starts to become unstable, lags and sticky operation starts eventually leading to a crash. This happens to me every few hours or less if in war environment.
When the game get to this bloated stage, minimising the screen or trying to switch apps still crashes the renderizer (or stopping it) resulting in the game not coming up. At this stage I just kill the process and allow the memory to clear then relog.

It seems that there is some memory leakage that causes the game to bloat and become unstable after some time. NGD fixed some elements of the problem in a recent patch and I have seen some improvement but, problem still exists.

The bad behaviour after closing RO is due to the fact that it seems that some game processes are slow to terminate and release memory back to the system. If it is taking long I also have to kill the process in task manager.
I am thinking of going to 3 GB RAM to see if I can gain some more memory overhead till the issue is resolved.
I post my spec for reference:

AMD Phenom II X2 550 black edit. 3.1Ghz
2GB DDR2 RAM
Win XP SP3
ATI Radeon 4670
Catalyst : 10.1 ( all version 9 same problem)
Direct 3d / Open GL
latest DirectX for WINXP

[Arkenion]

The problem is that the computer STAYS slowed down completely, so killing process and relogging doesn't really help actually, I have to restart the computer completely. Though I'm not sure if I could just wait until - like you said - the memory is cleared out again, I'll have to test that.


Thanks for the answer anyway :)
Good to know I'm not the only one.

[Gytha_Ogg]

Try running Windows Task Manager (easiest way is probably Ctrl-Alt-Delete, then pick the Task Manager button).

Click on the Processes tab, and you can click on the CPU and Mem Usage columns to sort the highest CPU users or memory users to the top of the list.

Also, if the game process is hanging around after you exit, you can kill it from there, and you might get your resources back without having to reboot.

(Anyone know the name of the RO game process on Windows?)

[Hamster_of_sorrow]

(Anyone know the name of the RO game process on Windows?)

the name of the process is ROclient or Regnumclient. its really easy to figure out which one it is. it is named very obviously.

INTERESTING SIDE NOTE: on linux, the process name is just "game"