Okies we are moving out of the realm of where I feel comfortable making suggestions, this is something that is most likely outside my abilities to solve.

I fall back to some standard ideas.

- verify the .net installation
- trying to read the exports hurts me, but it looks like the 2 of you using ATI cards are running diff drivers.
Try rolling back drivers, I know I had TERRIBLE problems with newer Nvidia drivers and had to rollback way in time to find something stable for my system. I currently run Forceware 175.19 I think I am way back in time on those.

Its also entertaining that the card reporting the least memory, is the one listed as stable.

With luck now that patch has come, someone with fresh eyes might be able to come take a look at this and add more ideas.

 

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K, I'll look into downgrading my driver. Also, I noticed after an hour and a half of hunting with Life Tank, my memory usage of AC Client has jumped from 150,000k to 347,000k. My Decal memory usage has stayed the same.

Also- I Crashed again, got the same, AC Client has encountered an error etc message, but then nothing was recorded in my events viewer.

Do my desktop resoulution and my AC resolution have to be the same?

if running in full window mode, no.


howevery if running in windowed mode, if screen resolution > desktop you might have some problems. EG displaying a 900x1600 screen say on a 600x800 desktop.

 

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K, so i downloaded a garbage collector to try to stop memory leakage. only problem is the file is .dsp, .dsw, and .positions. I don't know what program to use to open these. Anyone know where I can get free software to run these files?

Ummm.. I have no idea what you downloaded, and I'm not even sure its for windows.

Depending on which camp you believe, programs that "freeup" ram are either crapware or awesome.
as always YMMV.

Your running XP, have you considered trying eBooster? I believe they offer a time limited trial.
again some people say snake oil some people think its nifty.
the program is supposed to be "ReadyBoost" for XP. (for those who dunno, ReadyBoost is a feature of Vista where a high speed flash drive can be plugged in to add more overall memory to the system.)
It never hurts to try, while it can't solve the memory leak itself, it can buy you a bit more time.

wubbie -

 

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Yea, it runs on microsoft visual studio, but that software is super pricey and i'm not buying it. So I'm back to square one. I think I'm going to try to reinstall AC because when I have task manager open, AC Client is the program eating up all of the memory, maybe there's something corrupted.

Come to think of it...
I never bought an official copy of ToD, I just kept using the one I downloaded for a trial version. Could this be related??

Visual Studio... were you 1 handedly going to rewrite decal and AC? thats a programming tool.

I'm playing on a download version of AC and I don't crash very often.
But then I don't run either Tank and I triple log.

More random ideas,
- defrag the drive with AC on it. its a good thing to do.
- check the size of your swap file. I think , and I am sure someone will correct me, that a set size swap file of 1.5 * system ram is about the best to use. (do it after you defrag)


Keep trying new thing and settings. Sometimes you have to jiggle the handle.

 

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