warning spam and memory leak?

08/21/2018 17:47
Title: warning spam and memory leak - high disk IO also
Reproduction Rate: 100%
Blocker? Yes
Details: Seeing this warning spammed in the debugger: Particle System is trying to spawn on a mesh with zero surface area. Eventually the game grinds to a halt and memory usage is at ~ 21 GB, and was getting about 85 MB/sec sustained disk IO after 10 minutes and 3 scene loads (hidden vale -> novia -> Rift's end)
Steps to Reproduce:
User Specs:
OS: Windows 7 (6.1.0) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3550 @ 3.07GHz (8) System RAM: 24573
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 GPU RAM: 1979
SotA.QA.Win.64.726.Date.08.21.18
Area: POT_island_metropolis_01_template/Rift's End
Area Display Name: Rift's End
Loc: (-40.3, 89.0, -65.1)
Debug: UE9UX2lzbGFuZF9tZXRyb3BvbGlzXzAxX3RlbXBsYXRlfFJpZnQncyBFbmR8KC00MC4zNDksIDg5LjA0OCwgLTY1LjA1Myl8KDAsIDAuOTIxLCAwLCAwLjM4OSl8NTQyLjAyNTl8NDguMzExMXw1LjE1Mzg1

 

Seeing the same thing. My SOTA process is now at 25GB (of my 32GB on my system) and growing. If I turn on "/debug" the "warnings" count is increasing at an insane rate.

I also have terrible multi-second freezes that are worse than the usual hitching.

User Specs:
OS: Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz (8) System RAM: 32705
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 GPU RAM: 4053
SotA.QA.Win.64.726.Date.08.21.18

 

Eventually the game kicked me out and I had to relogin.

 

I'm just offering my debug as a contrast because I'm not having any issues with major memory leakage or any warnings in the debug. I've opened the over dozen chests I have here the majority of are nearly full many many times over, run around a bit good ***** looking for a Wyvern, through all the houses in my town, game towns, encounters, etc. Am unable to reproduce. My RAM usage is staying under 6GB max and my disk io was 90'sMB/s for a few seconds tops when zoning and stayed in the 20-40 range while some towns loaded. I did encounter a single hard crash to desktop, this was while I was monitoring resource usage and did not see it spike, but could have the moments before crashing. I'll keep an eye on it but wanted to give my debug up for analysis since I'm not having issues some are in the hopes it will help. After all this activity I have 2 Warnings in the debug console and thats it(Mesh Port_Avatar_Ghost_001 requires Read/Write Enabled to be set in the importer to work on the particle system shape module). Thanks Port!

Edit:
I was just zoning back to my town, while at the load screen debug warnings shot up to 150 and errors to 30. That being said my ram usage is now at 2.6GB and .1MB/s disk io. The warnings and errors:
Message: The referenced script on this Behaviour (Game Object 'Waveform') is missing!
Message: The referenced script on this Behaviour (Game Object '<null>') is missing!
Message: GetPixels32 failed: insufficent pixel buffer size (1), must be at least 4 x 4
Message: Failed to get pixels of splat texture


OS: Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700x Eight-Core Processor (16) System RAM: 32694
GPU: Radeon RX 580 Series GPU RAM: 8137
SotA.QA.Win.64.726.Date.08.21.18
Area: Novia
Area Display Name: Novia
Loc: (394.7, 17.2, -52.1)
Debug: Tm92aWF8fCgzOTQuNjg5LCAxNy4yNDIsIC01Mi4xMDYpfCgwLCAtMC44MTQsIDAsIC0wLjU4MSl8LTYxMC45MDgzfDQzLjI4NTQxfDQw

 

I can confirm the memory leak still exists in the latest build (727). After switching across several scenes, I'm now at 26GB memory in use and growing.

My scene switches were (as best I recall):
Middle Downs -> Novia
Novia -> Dawn's Keep
Dawn's Keep -> New Brittainian Market
New Brittainian Market -> Novia
Novia -> Verdantis Foothills
Verdantis Foothills -> Verdantis Mine
Verdantis Mine -> The Rise

 

Once memory usage becomes so massive that it consumes virtually all RAM on my system, it will quit the scene I'm in. At this point, it'll freeze at "50% loading map" (No clue what map it's loading since it is logging me out). The only recourse at that point is for me to kill the process. Since I had to kill the process, I'm not sure that the debug log is getting uploaded back to your servers. @Serafina please let me know if you want a copy of the debug log from this session. I've made a backup of it so it doesn't get overwritten. There are a several errors about missing shaders, but what gets logged the most (thousands of times) is

and

This may also be the source of the leak?

 

Yep I see those also a lot when switching scenes.

 

@Chris FYI - still seeing this in current QA build 727 728 - the disk IO is much reduced - was only around 1 MB/sec this time.

 

Currently the highest RAM used I saw on my system is around 18GB (on 32GB) and as you mentioned it varies when switching between scenes. Can't say for sure but I wonder if the data related to the previous scene are flushed out the RAM once we leave it...

 

FYI - this appears resolved as of QA build 733

 

Check your GPU usage and GPU temp (See https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/f...-a-massive-amount-of-gpu.138788/#post-1129211)