Is it just me, or has windows always done this with games?

[Se7ven]

I have noticed this with 2 games so far (i dont play much pc games but I have 6GB RAM), what I noticed is, the longer the game runs, your use of RAM % slowly increases, even to a point where the game shuts itself down because it suddenly doesn't have enough RAM to play with.

Although I did not notice this through a RAM monitor, actually my Logitech Z-10 speakers have an LCD function that shows how much CPU and RAM % you are using, and when I am running a game, even minimized it slowly reaches up to 80-90%, then when i go back into the game at that point it has a warning message and shuts itself down.

The last game i noticed this with was Sacred 2, when it reached a certain amount of memory in Task Manager it would just shut itself down with no warnings.

I can't imagine it does this with every game, or whether its a problem with my computer because it takes less then 3-4 hours for it to reach that shut down stage, and I know people run games almost 24/7.

Ideas? Thanks

 

[Boozebeard]

Sounds like the game has a memory leak, which isn't windows fault. Have you actually used the taskamanger to check that it is the game task that is using the memory? It could also be a dodgey driver.

 

[Se7ven]

yes i checked task manager its definately the game, as you look at task manager its going up almost 500KB/sec

 

[Smit]

Based on a quick Google check, Sacred 2 suffers Memory Leaks.

Have you downloaded the official patches/updates for the game?