Civ 4 memory leak using 1/2 my comp???

[DeyofAlgiers]

Today I was playing a game of Civ 4 on a standard size map. At about 140 AD the game froze completely. I control-alt-deleted into the task manager and saw this... View attachment 106167

I looked and saw that Civ was running on Below Normal priority... but I cant seem to fix that whatever I try... also it was using a huge amount of my comp for this game. Here are my specs.

Hyperthreading Pentium 4's with 3.06 GHz each
510 MB of Ram
NVidia Geforce FX 5200

The graphics seem to be fine but it lags as the game goes on... as many peeps in this forum have already said. Should I buy a new video card??? any suggustions would be nice. Thankz

 

[ostar]

The running at below normal priority is actually just due to you being in the task manager at that time. From what I understand the priority will return when you exit the task manager and go back to the game.
The memory leak is unfortunately real, although there are threads devoted to "firaxis apologists" and "angry consumers" arguing back and forth on the reality of it and/or it's cause.

 

[DeyofAlgiers]

Anyone know how to fix or atleast improve this???

 

[alexti2]

Civ4 does pretty much everything from a single thread, so it only uses one "logical" CPU. Despite what task manager shows it uses more than 50% computing resources, but with hyperthreading disabled it may run a bit faster

 

[camnel]

THis is not a sign of a memory leak. I ran Civ4 in windowed mode, and loaded a midgame huge map and it climbed to 800MB almost immediately (out of 1 GB). Games tend to take any and all resources available to them. And I'd try turning the hyperthreading off; I doubt Civ4 is taking advantage of it. Many apps run better with no hyperthreading.

 

[Neon Deon]

Anyone know how to fix or atleast improve this???

52 processes?

and ----at minumum spec for ram and almost video card.


Try turning off all that stuff you got running in the background.

Go into msconfig and disable all startup apps.

Then go to services and check the box marked hide all ms processes.

once the ms processes are hidden disables all the non ms services.

Set virtual memory to 2000 mb min and max.

reboot and try again.