Massive memory leak in current patch

[Deadcel]

My PC:

• RTX 4080 Super
• AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core @ 4.2GhZ
• 32 GB of Ram running at 6000Mhz
• NVMe SSD optimized for the CPU

After playing like an hour my game froze. Obviously during a fight or an ultimate or an effect. No idea why.

I tried closing the game and it wouldn't. It became unresponsive. Took me like 5-9 minutes to finally close the game and get back into the game only to realize it was a lost game now because of this. I notice my memory is at 98% usage, which makes no sense at all. It was over 90% the entire match.

I close the game after the un-winnable match and the memory still sat at > 90%. It wouldn't go down. I closed Firefox. I closed other programs. Stuck above 90%. Screenshot provided. I had to reboot to get the memory back as all of windows became unresponsive.



I believe the game has massive memory leaking issues right now. In no other game does this happen and my PC is quite new.

 

[Deadcel]

I am writing this to correct my report. Turns out there was a memory leak but it was from a different source. Writing what I found out here so it might help others googling the issue about most of RAM being in use despite nothing showing up on the task manager, aka RAM memory leak or zombie tasks.

So for those who have this issue:

I have a very ASUS focused setup so I naturally downloaded latest drivers and utilities you can for your motherboard etc. to ensure maximum compatibility.

Well turns out the ASUSTeks own programs, some not listed in the picture below, seem to cause massive memory leak issues. I believe they reserve parts of the RAM for use, aka zombie tasks, and never do that. One program starts another and starts another and slowly with time you RAM is all used up.



I uninstalled one of them and instantly my RAM went from 80% usage down to 25%. It took me a day to figure out what was causing it and finally found the culprit. I'm pretty much uninstalling everything with ASUSTek on it and never installing them again, despite the Armoury doing much of anything.

So in short: Go to Task Manager and look at Details panel and see what program has a lot of processes open that shouldn't really need that many. Aura wallpaper in this instance is literally just an animated wallpaper that reacts to RGB lighting or music or something stupid like that but is resource heavy anyway so why bother?

In any case that's it from me.