And now, a show stopper, for me anyway...

[335th_GRAthos]

Great tips!
I learned something gong through the posts guys, thanks!


@Tvrdi: "We cant expect that every single CLOD customer is HW and SW expert" Well, if he is not when buying the flight sim, I can only hope he is a fast learner... I became an expert in Russian when I tried to download it from the Russian websites the first month of circulation...
Yes, you are right Tvrdi in all points. But I like this flight sim somehow so I have my fun trying to sort out things...

@Dutch: Yes, thanks for this tip, I read about the 60% throttle at take-off yesterday at another thread. How was I supposed to imagine that a plane can take off at 60% engine power??? Good to know (after dozens of perforated oil gaskets...)

@Insuber: "it's enough to let CloD alone, even minimized, to see the RAM being slowly eaten up" Interesting, I did exactly the same test, 30min in the ATAG server on the ground and it did NOT happen (no memory leak).
My best result before CTD was 2hrs flying on ATAG server (with very little enemy contact ).
My worst result was 30min flying on ATAG server (with a hell of a lot of enemy contact ).
This is why I tend to think the memory leak must be related to explosions.

@albx: sorry mate, this is what happens often to early "trend setters". But we did not have such obvious memory leaks back those days (if I remember well, could be wrong, does not matter anyway...)

@tintifaxl: Thanks for the explanation! It spares me the experimentations I was intending to do
@cheesehawk: Damn, so I will have to experiment after all...

@senseispcc: "There was a problem in the beta patch but in the patch itself there is none" Ugh? The Memory leak? Trust me, it is there, post patch.

@Feathered: That is too little my friend, you have to do better than that. It seems flying is not the cause, you have to hit and make things explode, see the pieces dropping zoomed in, watch the planes crash.... (this is the moment where I should post the YouTube link to "Conan the Barbarian" speach about war and destruction... sorry, I do not have it )

Anyway, to cut the long story short, it is not nice but, it is controllable and predictable so it does not cause me such a nuissance to restart CoD after I have engaged eight bandits (this is my CTD average). Besides, when I log in back to the same server my stats have not been re-set, this makes things a lot easier.

Needless to say, I am confident that they will be quick to solve this bug since it is so obvious!
The only probem I have is that I can not create a dump file because all dump files after this CTD are 0Kb thus useless.


~S~