Game slows down to a crawl the more I play

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Hey, downloaded the game last night and have been playing it off and on most of the day. Its a great game, Im enjoying it. It was a bit hard to get a handle on, but I think Im over the basic learning curve and am really figuring out how to expand and actually play the game.

 

The issue though, is the longer I play, the less responsive the game becomes. The frame rate will sloooowly reduce into nothingness until it feels like Im playing a slideshow. It makes this amazing, fun game unplayable to a large extent for me. Ive turned down all my graphics settings, Ive closed all other running programs, etc.

 

Still the same problem

 

Is there a way to fix this? Or is this issue being resolved in the Release Patch? I hope so, because Im loving the game I just cant really PLAY it right now :\

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Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Please open your debug.err file in notepad, and link the contents into a post here via pastebin. This will give us some technical information that can help troubleshoot your problem.

The file can be found in My Documents\My Games\Elemental

Be sure to copy the debug immediately after the error occurs; if you start the game again, the debug log will be erased and recreated for the new session.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Quick question, since I've been having this problem as well: My last debug.err is a whopping 118kb, and full of about 50,000 completely different types of errors, like...

 

Debug Message:  WARNING: Forest type  leaked - refs: 384
Debug Message:  WARNING: Forest type  leaked - refs: 99
Debug Message:  WARNING: GameItemType TravelingBoots leaked - refs: 19
Debug Message:  WARNING: GameItemType LongstriderBoots leaked - refs: 5

and...

 

Debug Message:  WARNING: Creating caravan Caravan at tile 72,35 with no city at that tile, no home city set
Debug Message:  WARNING: AI Player couldn't find a default difficulty level.

and...

 

Debug Message:  WARNING: (CXFileData) FindRegisteredMaterialIDByName could not find registered material with name 'lambert2SG'
Debug Message:  (WARNING) InitMaterialIDs could not find material ID for material 'lambert2SG'.  No attributes have been applied to this material in the modelling program.  Please add the material name attribute.

and...

 

Debug Message:  ERROR: (CD3D9Renderer) Unable to create mesh during ::CreateTextMesh.
Debug Message:  ERROR: (CDrawManager) Failed to create text mesh in ::Reload3DFont.

 

and...

Debug Message:  ERROR: (CMapTextGraphic) Failed to create 3D font wrapper for CMapTextGraphic 'The land of happy Youths'.
Debug Message:  WARNING: Could not find animation 'K_Wagon_Idle_01' in animation sub pack 'K_Wagon_Idle_Animations' for animation pack 'WagonAnimationPack'
Debug Message:  WARNING: Could not find animation 'K_Wagon_Walk_01' in animation sub pack 'K_Wagon_Walk_Animations' for animation pack 'WagonAnimationPack'

 

and...

Debug Message:  ERROR: (CD3D9Renderer) Failed to stretch a surface rect in ::StretchRect with error D3DERR_INVALIDCALL (Invalid call)

 

and...

 

Debug Message:  WARNING: Caravan Caravan has trade cities set, but for some reason has no directive!!  Continuing on to our next city to try to get on track again
Debug Message:  WARNING: Unit Aluembamo failed to start a new city, won't be consumed

 

and...

 

DebugMessage:  Unallocated Mem: 1404 bytes of memory from line 222 of E:\Elemental\Kumquat3D\Source\AStarManager.cpp
DebugMessage:  Unallocated Mem: 1404 bytes of memory from line 222 of E:\Elemental\Kumquat3D\Source\AStarManager.cpp
DebugMessage:  Unallocated Mem: 1404 bytes of memory from line 222 of E:\Elemental\Kumquat3D\Source\AStarManager.cpp
DebugMessage:  Not all memory has been freed from memory system AStar.
DebugMessage:     32292 bytes of memory still allocated.

 

This is all just a tiny sample.

....Is this because I'm playing in windowed mode or something?

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Here's my pastebin. Experiencing lagging as well.

http://pastebin.ca/1923556

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Spicy, reply 5
it did lock up on me during a tactical combat.

Tactical combat has its own issues apparently.  See the thread here.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quick question, since I've been having this problem as well: My last debug.err is a whopping 118kb, and full of about 50,000 completely different types of errors, like...

Please post the whole thing on pastebin, the devs would need to determine just where the issue lies.

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

I got the same problem, After a fresh install and 1 hour of play my debug.err file is already 300kb and full of errors and warrnings.

The game is also getting strange. Seems like mouse is offset from the graphics. Turns take slow to load/finish(in a unatural way, only got 2 settlements so not a large game), Spells in combat dont display graphics. Num Enter for finishing turns seem sporadic, works sometimes othertimes not.

Otherwise then that i really like the game xD

Just need to figure out how the hell i get some food for my settlement.

Reply #12 from Elemental Forums Top

If it helps: here's my debug.err http://pastebin.ca/1923737

Game slows down to a crawl after a while until wierd issues start to happen (no auto-battle until camera focused on unit, overlapping events, missing special effects like shard "beams" etc.) and the game crashes with a generic Windows error reporting message.

Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top

Here is my pastebin log:

http://pastebin.com/hJ08JzbA

Was looking for the support forums here for Elemental but could not find them. It looks like a memory leak still exists. Keep crashing to desktop.

Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top

Here is mine.  Game started off running at over 200fps, now it is at 14 when looking at a town, a small basic town at that. 

 

 

Reply #18 from Elemental Forums Top

Not sure if it's quite the same problem - I do experience a slight slowing but pretty quickly get a "Out of Memory" windows error message, which throws me out of the game.

 

http://pastebin.ca/1924101

 

Reply #20 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm experiencing the same issue -- play for about 30/45 minutes and then the slowdown is so dramatic
   Me too.

Reply #21 from Elemental Forums Top

Here's mine from tonights game, where VM usage shot way up (LCD Miscellany on my G15 keyboard reported 7GB, went down to 2GB after closing Elemental): http://www.hiredgoons.ca/elemental/debug2.err

Turns were definitely slowing down by the end.

Reply #22 from Elemental Forums Top

This is the only problem I have with the game to be honest.

I am loving the game but later on it starts to slow down a bit which is kind of annoying.

Other then that I am just blown away by how addicting this game is.

I have not had any crashes or anything though which is good.
If they can fix the late game slowdown then boy will I be a happy camper because this game right here is just my type of game :andrew:

Reply #24 from Elemental Forums Top

x_x  need memory. must eat. brains.