Still having memory leak

I am still having a significant memory leak since the release patch. It's a creeping type, takes and hour or so, but it is significant.

 

I believe they said it was a Unity issue... they are waiting for a fix from Unity... I guess, until that fix arrives, we'll have to endure...

 

A restart every couple of hours, with a cup of tea and a leg stretch is my current plan. Game fizzes for a while after that, as do I

 

Tbh, that's really no excuse after all this time. if I can run a game like Overwatch in almost all the highest settings, then I should be able to run this easily without issues. They really need to delve deeper into this.

What I believe is happening is that the game is using the computer memory and not even or barely touching the GPU memory. I have 8GB on my video card alone, yet it ramps up to eat 97% of my system memory. That's an issue.

 

Lol. Overwatch.



Recommended 6 GB ram for Overwatch.

My game doesn't really hitch at all anymore actually now you mention it. I hadn't really thought much about it til now but before the last patch I was constantly restarting to clear the hitching.

Will have to check it out later!

 

The issue is traced back to the engine level in which SotA is using Unity. In these past years, they had Unity flew some of their engineers over to Austin a few times to collect information to go fix stuff on their end. It's going to take Unity as long as it takes unfortunately.

Overwatch is using its own proprietary engine, so they wouldn't have the same memory issue that Unity-based games would have.

 

But Overwatch is an FPS? You're just playing over and over in the same canned zones? You don't even have non-combat towns to run around, as far as I know, much less deco. That's like complaining that a semi truck with a fully loaded trailer uses more fuel than a pickup truck with your groceries in back. SotA is like "Second Life lite" in many ways, which is why it needs both more CPU and GPU.

 

Don't draw internal deco if a player isn't standing on that lot? The massive performance hit to dislaying every single deco on every single lot within visual range is excessive. There must be culling options. I would much rather see a player model and their nameplate at extreme range, rather than load the crap in 20 houses I'm running away from.

Underhanded players already taken advantage of causing a "black hole" effect in PVP fights by luring you toward a housing region with massive deco/items launch around.

 

There is deco culling enabled as far as I know though.

 

And since the levels in Overwatch are static, they can do all sorta of tricks, like baking things like lighting in, instead of doing it dynamically..

Plus it's a custom engine AFAIK - so they're not relying on a 3rd party for improvements, fixes, tweaks, customization.

Not to mention they have a ton of $$ and employees.