Fix the memory leak

[Baseballman2K5]

Can anyone think of a reason why I would be experiencing my game slowing down ("memory leak") for the first time in version 27?

I've been playing since OOTP4 and never had an issue with this 'Memory Leak' slowing things down.

Perhaps the game is just laggy/choppy, as I usually don't buy the new version this early

[Pedro]

Originally Posted by Baseballman2K5

Can anyone think of a reason why I would be experiencing my game slowing down ("memory leak") for the first time in version 27?

I've been playing since OOTP4 and never had an issue with this 'Memory Leak' slowing things down.

Perhaps the game is just laggy/choppy, as I usually don't buy the new version this early

I'm the same, I've never had an issue until this year. From searching on the internet though, it seems like it has been present for a small subset of users in a lot of years - guess we just won the lottery this year.


Unfortunately it's a very difficult issue to pin down due to the vast differences in PCs out there.

[Thundercrack]

First time slowdown for me too, been playing since the beginning

[BaseballMan]

So far after a month i have not seen the stuttering again.

[Baseballman2K5]

Originally Posted by BaseballMan

So far after a month i have not seen the stuttering again.

Nice username sir

[BaseballMan]

Originally Posted by Baseballman2K5

Nice username sir

Thanks.

[bockerboy]

I hate that this continues to be an issue. It has plagued me since OOTP20 across multiple PC's.

Makes it really hard to immerse myself in a save when I have to quit and restart every 2-3 games.

[micropterus58]

When playing the game normally I've not had any problems. The past two days I was editing ballpark textures for ballparks I downloaded. I was changing some graphics for my fictional league. I was using Paint Shop Pro 23. I had OOTP 27 open in the edit 3D stadium section. I would edit a jpg or png image and reload the OBJ file to check the results. Other than that I had Firefox open and Windows 11 Explorer open(multiple windows). Both days my PC bogged down to a crawl after a few hours. Closing the applications did not fix the problem. Task manager did not show any file or process hogging the memory. Restarting Windows was the only solution. I have edited in PSP 23 for hours without issues. The only difference was reloading the OBJ file repeatedly. Maybe this will help the devs.

[Baseballman2K5]

The game for me is so slow right upon starting it...it can't be due to memory leak when i just started the game. Player pages take a few seconds to load...nothing instantly loads. Very frustrating to play, and this is on a brand new computer

[Bobfather]

Piling on. The leak keeps freezing my whole computer. The only way to shut down is to use Ctrl-Alt-Delete, which causes me to lose days of games, even though I back up every game day. It usually happens when looking through several pages. I am in the off-season, so I am making trades, signing FAs, and checking my budget. And within those pages, filtering and sorting.

[Blackjack]

I continue to get Low memory crashes. Sometimes I can get back in right away sometimes my computer completely locks up and I have to restart the computer. I tried a new league where I stripped down as much as I could. Made the 3d settings as low as possible etc. still got another one today. I have been playing the game for about 7 or 8 years and I really love it but the hassle just isn't worth it anymore. This is the last straw in a long line of issues and bugs the last few versions.

[Gomer]

I've been playing every version for the past 18 years, and 27 is the first version I've ever had this problem with.

It gets slow and glitchy, sometimes after only 15-20 minutes of having the game open.

My current machine is the most robust machine I've ever had.

Is there a thread somewhere else where this has been fixed?

[Cb6]

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.

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%.