Civ running AFTER leaving game?

[WalrusMan]

I am still seeing CIV IV running (and the RAM it is using getting bigger) after I leave the game. I have to reboot or kill the process to get rid of it.

Has anyone else seen this behavior?

Thanks!

 

[Roxinante]

I think this is part of the bug where theres a memory leak that occures near the end of the game. The problem has happened to me as well, and I've had to go in an manually kill the process.

 

[Davidmp]

Hum this explains something still running when I turn off the computer. Every time I shut down after playing Civ IV there is something still running and I get the Ending Process screen before the system will shut down.

 

[sgrig]

It takes a while for Civ4 to unload from memory after you exit it. On my computer it takes a few minutes for it to unload fully.

 

[exile2]

However if you kill the process it empties itself from memory immediately - which means the several minutes it takes to unload from memory
when you exit the game is a bug.

 

[sgrig]

I agree that memory management in Civ4 is far from perfect.

 

[Barak]

I have noticed this issue as well. Very annoying.

 

[zurichuk]

Just noticed this after shutting down a large map, long session (5 hr +)modern age scuffle, looked to me Windows was clearing out about a Gig from the swap file after shutdown (and on my laptop that takes a minute or so with the slow hard-drive), minor inconvenience though

 

[chalky68]

i have just turned civ4 off,opened up tskmgr,and as expected the applications window shows nothing running.yet why does my comp show that im using 290mb mem?
Thats after a reboot aswell.

 

[Smidlee]

The more ram you got the faster civ4 get cleared out of your memory/pc. It also true the more ram you got the quicker you can reenter civ4 from desktop. I can tell a big difference between 1gb of ram to 2gb (which I just upgrade) when it come exitings civ4 or reentering civ4. Ram memory reacts faster than "hard drive paging" memory

 

[Randle]

However if you kill the process it empties itself from memory immediately - which means the several minutes it takes to unload from memory
when you exit the game is a bug.

Exiting a game and killing the process are two different things. When you exit it takes awhile to unload it from memory because it is doing it "properly," (releasing memory, deleting temp files, any other maintenence type things) When you kill the process, the OS kicks it out and everything that goes with it; not always the preferred way of doing things.

It's like the difference between kill -15 and kill -9 in *nix.

 

[TSteamer]

After the following conversation in my house:

Wife (yelling from kitchen)-- "I thought you were finally turning that thing OFF!"
Me-- (yelling from office) "I did!"
Wife-- "I can still HEAR it!"

I decided to time it last night and I can hear the music and ambient sounds for 36 seconds after quitting to desktop.

However, I can hear my wife a lot longer than that after quitting...

 

[gunnergoz]

One more consideration about force-quitting processes; it may still be writing to the game's cache file so any early quitting may corrupt the write to the file and lead to an unstable game the next start.
I delete the cache fairly often, so the game can live without a fresh cache, but I doubt that a corrupted cache will help anyone.
And yes, the more and the faster RAM/CPU you have, the better.

 

[gunnergoz]

After the following conversation in my house:

Wife (yelling from kitchen)-- "I thought you were finally turning that thing OFF!"
Me-- (yelling from office) "I did!"
Wife-- "I can still HEAR it!"

I decided to time it last night and I can hear the music and ambient sounds for 36 seconds after quitting to desktop.

However, I can hear my wife a lot longer than that after quitting...

Hint -- from another married guy -- turn off your sound/speakers before you quit the game and shut down the pc. Magic! Everybody's happy!

 

[TSteamer]

Hint -- from another married guy -- turn off your sound/speakers before you quit the game and shut down the pc. Magic! Everybody's happy!

You are a genius. Great tip!
-TSteamer

PS: (Although, I dont think my wife will ever be happy about Civ IV's very existence....heheh)