FYI - Out of memory work around

All - I don't want to keep anybody from posting out of memory crashes, but a temporary work-around in case you'd like to finish a game is to run in windowed mode, and periodically minimize and then restore the Elemental window. This forces a garbage collection at the OS level and reclaims memory.

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DarkSide73

Join Date 04/2006

The other day I go this message when the game hit 3gb of usage. My computer has 8 so I think the issue is more complicated that simply reclaiming memory. I hope it is not the same type of issue from SINS, but I certainly will try your suggestion. Thanks.

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The other day I go this message when the game hit 3gb of usage.

its a 32 bit game at this stage so it cannot use more then 2 GB of ram another way is to watch its memory usage and save the game before it hits the 2 gb mark. game will be 64 bit after release so if you have a 64 bit then no problems ever again.

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32 bit or 64 bit, it doesn't matter. The game should not EVER run out of memory. They will (have to) fix it before release...

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The problem could also be textures, Sins has this problem from day one, and it still is a problem, and thus one of the modders started a optimization mod. To reduce the texture sizes and so on, In Elemental, I get lag in late game, but I never had a problem in regards to out of memory (on Win7 64bit).

However, I would have thought that Stardock should release a 64bit (beta) version of the game before retail.

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