just updated to 1.09.43, on my i7 w 12gb ddr3 2ghz win7 64bit played a single new game with a custom sov large map & map view cheat, played to turn 155 then elemental crashed, checked ram use was 1.6gb, last entries in the debug.err suggest that there is a ram leak in the save code as almost all the ooms that have happened to me have all been in the save code as the last entries

added the saves & dxdiags to the zip

note back in 1.08 had tried the laa patch trick and I did get to about turn 300 with the total ram use hitting 3gb on the same computer

harpo