[.90][Poor performance] Is there a memory leak?

I'm having the same issue but my elemental was only using 800 mb of ram when I checked task manager. 

In a quest to take out a bandit camp, I had to fight 2 tactical battles.  I noticed the second was much slower than the first.

This happened to me as well, I was a bit confused but happy for the extra experience I think I have a save just before i entered the camp too I'll check that later.

My performance is usually really good. I saw the perf suddenly tank after I successfully completed my first research item. The game went from very smooth, to unplayable. It wasn't a slow degredation, however. The save game I made just after this happened does not load, either, just loops the animated background while trying to load.

Same here. After a while, it just becomes unbearable. Switching over to the cloth map at that point helps, but the second you enter a tactical battle, it turns into a power point presentation.

Without any sort of hardware or system info, we can't really help you.

See https://forums.elementalgame.com/364285

Here is my system info...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9163563/DxDiag.txt

DxDiag: http://pastebin.com/m9zfYwUv

I'm having the same problem. Also my intro screen is split. Half the background stuff is on the left side. The other half is in the middle with Yellow lines cutting through the center. It does in during the ANSI movie at the start as well.

Not sure if it's related but I run in 16 bit gfx on my desktop cause it seems to help improve preformace. Elemental always gives me the warning that it's a 32 bit gfx game when it starts. But I've never had issues like this with it in the other builds.

I was able to fix my problem with this by updating to the latest nvidia drivers. 

I am getting the same thing.  Here is my dxdiag:  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9163928/DxDiag.txt