Memory Leak with FNV

[Godot24]

After starting up my Fallout New Vegas with the nvse and enterning the game my memory for this game jumps up to 1,2GB -> Memory Leak.

I've tried to deactivate and look what mod is causing this, but i haven't gotten any positives on what is causing this.

 

The Attachments have my mods in the FOMM main and package windows as well as a boss log.

Edited March 8, 2015 by Godot24

[JimboUK]

1.2GB is low unless you're playing at really low settings, I average double that, is there any other issue? if not I wouldn't worry about it.

[Godot24]

1.2GB is low unless you're playing at really low settings, I average double that, is there any other issue? if not I wouldn't worry about it.

 

Problem is a few minutes later it caps and closes.

[JimboUK]

Then something else is causing it, that memory use is fine, I took this under normal load this afternoon, I'm assuming your game is 4GB enabled....

 

http://i.imgur.com/1MhpDxO.jpg

 

How much VRAM do you have? New Vegas tends to crash if you run out of it, those large textures could be a problem with only 1GB of the stuff.

[Jax765]

Then something else is causing it, that memory use is fine, I took this under normal load this afternoon, I'm assuming your game is 4GB enabled....

 

http://i.imgur.com/1MhpDxO.jpg

 

How much VRAM do you have? New Vegas tends to crash if you run out of it, those large textures could be a problem with only 1GB of the stuff.

 

Are memory leaks normal even when using the 4GB loader? Noticed it today when after playing for a few hours, the game was dropping to 40FPS in a pretty undemanding interior space in Old World Blues. Restarted the game, and it was back to 60FPS again.

Edited March 14, 2015 by Jax765

[retroversion]

oh wow I get this all the time, after a few minutes of play my game slows down until its unplayable. Usually I sit between 40-60 fps, but it slowly goes down to 30 then 20 then its unplayable... would love to know if there is a fix or if a mod is causing this

 

EDIT: and yes, minutes, not even hours

Edited March 19, 2015 by rogergamer

[JimboUK]

oh wow I get this all the time, after a few minutes of play my game slows down until its unplayable. Usually I sit between 40-60 fps, but it slowly goes down to 30 then 20 then its unplayable... would love to know if there is a fix or if a mod is causing this

 

EDIT: and yes, minutes, not even hours

 

I would check the cooling on your GPU.

 

@jax765 No they're not normal, anyway increased memory usage wouldn't lessen your frame rate unless you actually ran out of VRAM, what might be doing it is a mod that's running excessive or bad scripts, that could be a problem. Which one though is anyones guess, it's a case of elimination.

[retroversion]

oh wow I get this all the time, after a few minutes of play my game slows down until its unplayable. Usually I sit between 40-60 fps, but it slowly goes down to 30 then 20 then its unplayable... would love to know if there is a fix or if a mod is causing this

 

EDIT: and yes, minutes, not even hours

 

I doubt it's a heating issue since other games work fine, and once fnv is restarted it runs smoothly again

[Kingmewtwo]

On 3/19/2015 at 9:22 AM, JimboUK said:

 

I would check the cooling on your GPU.

 

@jax765 No they're not normal, anyway increased memory usage wouldn't lessen your frame rate unless you actually ran out of VRAM, what might be doing it is a mod that's running excessive or bad scripts, that could be a problem. Which one though is anyones guess, it's a case of elimination.

Cooling issues aside, I have experienced this crashing as well, but have not modded FNV. We sadly don't see this issue on console, it's only on PC. You might be right on the Vram, but people who play games like FNV should have decent hardware to play it on. I had hopes that there was a patch that would fix this issue, or a mod. I'm reinstalling this game eventually and hope to play more than 3 hours.

[madmongo]

Try changing your graphics options to use lower quality textures. If the game runs a lot longer, then it's just a known bug in the game itself that is causing the crash. The game's texture caching system is known to leak memory. The higher quality textures you use, the faster the game leaks memory and the faster the game crashes.

Since the bug is within the game code itself, it can't be fixed by mods.

Unfortunately, it leaves most players with a choice. You either use better textures and have better looking graphcis but less long term stability in the game, or you use crappy textures that don't look as good but have a more stable game. It's one or the other though. You can't have good graphics and stability both. Choose one.

If you want good long-term stability in your game, turn your graphics option down to lower settings and don't ever use high resolution graphics mods.

Also, if you haven't done so already, install the 4GB patch. Fallout New Vegas is a 32 bit game, which means that the most it can access is 2GB of memory. It doesn't matter if you have 32 GB or more RAM in your system, the game can only use 2GB of it. With the patch you can double that to 4GB, but that's as far as you can ever go (2 to the 32 power is 4GB, so that's a hard limit). The game is still going to leak memory, but if you have more memory available to the game, it will take the game longer to completely fill it up and crash.

FYI - 1.2 GB is fairly normal memory usage for the game. Once it loads in the game data and loads up all of the graphics textures for anything visible on the screen, and loads LOD and everything else that it needs to load, that can very easily take up 1.2 GB of RAM.