<b>Pirates sluggish, using 388MB 99% CPU</b>, and climbing...
After awhile of playing Pirates, the game starts to get sluggish. Sometimes it's random slug, like when having a naval battle with another ship, where time seems to slow to a crawl, or in sword fights on ships where the game is not reading keyboard input fast enough.
At first I just thought it was the feature of the game, albeit annoying. However, after pulling up Windows Task Manager at a time where the game became stupidly sluggish, it said that Pirates.exe was using 348 MB ram.
Seems pretty high for such a `non-intensive` graphics game such as Pirates.
I play HL2, CS:S, Battle For Middle Earth, etc with no problem, but only with Pirates.
I return to the game and play a little longer, and check Task Manager again to see if what I suspect happens. Yes, it does. Pirates.exe is now increased RAM usage to 388MB, and 99% of the CPU is being worked as well.
My roommate is also playing the game using the same CD on a second computer, and is reporting the same sluggishness at random times.
I suspect a "memory leak" in the game. Instead of freeing RAM as it goes, and only using a determined amount, it is filling up available RAMemory as it loads new scenes, etc.
<u>CPU Specs</u>
<b>Athlon XP 1.8 GHz on ASUS A7N8X mobo
768 MB RAM
MSI FX5200 GForce 128 MB video card
</b>
I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem, and what could be causing it thanks.
After awhile of playing Pirates, the game starts to get sluggish. Sometimes it's random slug, like when having a naval battle with another ship, where time seems to slow to a crawl, or in sword fights on ships where the game is not reading keyboard input fast enough.
At first I just thought it was the feature of the game, albeit annoying. However, after pulling up Windows Task Manager at a time where the game became stupidly sluggish, it said that Pirates.exe was using 348 MB ram.
Seems pretty high for such a `non-intensive` graphics game such as Pirates.
I play HL2, CS:S, Battle For Middle Earth, etc with no problem, but only with Pirates.
I return to the game and play a little longer, and check Task Manager again to see if what I suspect happens. Yes, it does. Pirates.exe is now increased RAM usage to 388MB, and 99% of the CPU is being worked as well.
My roommate is also playing the game using the same CD on a second computer, and is reporting the same sluggishness at random times.
I suspect a "memory leak" in the game. Instead of freeing RAM as it goes, and only using a determined amount, it is filling up available RAMemory as it loads new scenes, etc.
<u>CPU Specs</u>
<b>Athlon XP 1.8 GHz on ASUS A7N8X mobo
768 MB RAM
MSI FX5200 GForce 128 MB video card
</b>
I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem, and what could be causing it thanks.
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