Possible Memory Leak

TomLukman

I'm not familiar with what exactly the yellow effect came from, but it was permanently there and wouldn't go away even after 10 or more minutes which leads me to believe it might be some kind of memory leak. This screen shot was taken on a PC client, in Cyrodiil after a big battle and during a low 6 FPS session.

kungmoo

its left behind by nova ultimate from a templar

i have left many behind me

UPrime

A memory leaks is RAM that isn't returned to the OS when it's no longer needed. Something like that isn't a memory leak, it's just a effect that is still active.

TomLukman

Exactly, and for some reason this nova visual effect didn't get removed when it was no longer needed.

TomLukman

And if we have junk effects piling up in our clients like that (which we don't have to see visually every time) the effect would be even worse then just pure memory leak. Huge FPS drops in large battles (trying to render invisible effects) or clients crashing - and I'm pretty sure we've all had plenty of those recently.

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO

This is actually one of the main suspects for the huge FPS drops: particle effects with lighting that don't get removed when the effect ends. Not a memory leak per se, but a serious bug nonetheless, and a clear example of sloppy programming and insufficient testing.

ArconSeptim

Yeah they changed those visual effects of everything that also casues this issues, but I have 4 more days left seems they don't fiy it and I will need to say goodbye

TRIP233

I was in vet 8 zone doing some story line quests and I also had 6 to 7 FPS. It was so bad I kept dying against the final zone boss. I've been stuck on this quest for almost a week. Good thing I've been busy most of this week or I would have really been mad. I know update is Monday so I'll just wait for a patch... Hopefully.