Memory leak when doing "New Game" constantly

[microbe]

I was trying to get a good start for an OCC game, so I did "New Game/Quick Start" for like 20~30 times, and I saw the memory of Conquest kept increasing. Eventually, it displayed text as NIL and crashed.

Reproduceable.

 

[eric_A]

I have noticed this, I can start the game twice, but on the third
time it won't run. I was wondering if some new OSs are better at recovering memory, I am using win98 which is fairly ancient

 

[allism]

I have noticed this running XP Pro- but I have to New Game probably at least 20 times before this happens.

 

[radsailor]

I just started playing conquests and in one game after about 5 moves, I got the low resources message and game crashed. No other programs were on in the background and I have 512 mb ram

 

[big_hairy_yeti]

Yes, often after playing conquests, i get messages regarding the size of my virtual memory. The system slows down hugely during this process.
I have XP home, and 512 MB memory

 

[Pounder]

I've seen this as well, it will reach a point were if it doesn't run out of memory and crash, it will be unbearably slow as it thrashes around with hardly any available memory.

384Meg Mem 98se

 

[Dease]

I have the same problem, when I had only 128mb ram it took many tries just to load the game. Now with 384mb ram it's much better but if I try to open a program immediatley after closing conquests it says there isn't enough memory, but doesn't crash. (win 98)

 

[microbe]

For a few times I got a message saying "cannot allocate video buffer" or sth to that extent, and the game just hang there and couldn't be killed.

 

[bob rulz]

Wow...

I've never gotten this message.

 

[Pounder]

For a few times I got a message saying "cannot allocate video buffer" or sth to that extent, and the game just hang there and couldn't be killed.

Do you have an integrated video card that shares memory?

Integrated video cards use between 32MB and 64MB of your PC's memory, dynamically allocated. With a memory leak problem, your video may also be affected.

 

[microbe]

I don't know. It's an IBM thinkpad T30.

 

[SesnOfWthr]

I get the "cannot allocate video buffer" occasionally, and I don't have an integrated card. It starts with buttons and icons disappearing, and that's when I shut it down and restart it.

I know that in discussion's of Dianthus' Mapfinder utility, she has it built in to restart conquests every X number of times, for exactly this reason, I believe. I know she(?) is running some 3.2ghz machine, so I think it's just a glitch with the game.