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Originally Posted by Lukas Berger
This is much more likely a problem with other programs you're running in the background interfering with the game than a memory leak, as if it was a memory leak, it would likely be happening to everyone.
I would suggest doing some troubleshooting with turning off/whitelisting OOTP in any anti-virus or firewall software you have.
You also might want to experiment a little with the OpenGL settings you use, and see if you get better results by changing from the defaults. It's possible the defaults are not a good combo with your system/video card.
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Apologies, this is my first time back on the forums since making this post and I'm shocked how much traction this got. This will be lengthy, but here's been my full experience since day 1 of the game, I will also include experiences of my brother who also plays this game. For reference, I have 165 hours this year and my brother has even more so this is not from a limited sample size.
Both me and my brother pre-ordered OOTP 27 and both of us noticed during our first times playing that after a few hours the game would lag and slow down to around 30 FPS and continually slow down to around 10 which is when it would become unplayable. I should note that neither of us typically play the games and instead just simulate them. The only way either of us has found to fix this issue is to restart the game. We've both tried closing every other currently open and actively running application as well as other background processes, but it didn't seem to help. We've tried playing in windowed mode vs fullscreen, no changes. I have tried messing with dozens of different settings, nothing. OpenGL settings, turning facepacks off, turning 3D off entirely, limiting FPS, but nothing changes. I also do not have my antivirus monitoring OOTP. It seems minor, but it is so frustrating to have to close the game every few hours because of the lag especially when you're mid season or in the middle of negotiating a big trade / FA signing. I'm really not sure what else to try at this point to fix it. I will say that this is not the first year that either of us has had this issue, as a matter of fact I know 2 other people who also had this issue since OOTP 25 (when we all started playing seriously) on top of me and my brother having it. But, this years game it is much worse than it ever has been before. The other thing I will mention is that, and this could be unrelated entirely, but during awards voting both me and my brother notice that it seems to lag every time you select a player to vote for them or move them in your voter rankings. Recently I have noticed it happening less often during awards, but my brother says it happens to him almost every time award voting comes around. And regardless, the issue of the game slowing down after a few hours has persisted as it just happened to me yesterday.
I wanna end this post with something positive, thank you for making this game. This is easily one of my all time favorite game series and in my top 3 most played game franchises. I love everything about it, despite having 700+ total hours over the last 3 iterations of OOTP, I still learn new things every time I start a new franchise and have a blast doing so! I hope you guys can figure out whatever this issue is and patch it, or worst case scenario fix it for next year so that whatever this issue is, it never comes back!
Edit: As of just today, I had the game crash from the lag. My game started lagging and so i decided to open my task manager and it showed the memory usage being higher than normal. I watched as it rose and rose until it hit 100% and then the game subsequently crashed, before the usage dropped to around 15%. For reference, when I normally first start OOTP my memory usage is around 40%, when I opened task manager it was at 75%.