just fyi that when i turned off auto turns, the memory usage slowed but continued to increase until it locked up again.  To be honest with you, the memory stopped climbing when ever i did not have any players selected.  As soon as I clicked on my sovereign, the memory started climbing again.  I will try again to make sure i am not imagining anything or it was some fluke but thought i would mention it.

no, nothing to do with clicking on the player BUT the problem is better without autoturn on.  Still eventually freezes but much better. Memory is not being released after closing the game though.

I think I got something, maybe. I took a video of this:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9578304/ramloss.avi

Please observe how I can make it jump 3 MB in usage every time I press the design units button, even though it's displaying the same exact thing every time.

I'm not going to comment on this.

I've just played my second straight OoM game with all sounds turned off.  I don't think that's it.

Dump file is here.

I also played through without sound, and tried to avoid tac battles (where possible, some quests dont give you a choice), and it went a bit longer, but still oom. I wonder if it's a certain thing we are all doing to ruin it. There have been a couple turns for me where the mem dropped a bit. But it always eventually keeps going up in the long run..I also got a dmp file this time. I don't know why sometimes it produces one, and others it doesn't.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8949112/2/debug.err

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8949112/2/Elemental0_98-2010-07-31T16-46-58-426.dmp

EDIT: I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I noticed that while researching adventure (i played kingdom this time), it doesn't reflect my level properly after about level 3 or so. I was on level 9 or 10 of adventure, and the goodie hut locations/quests were shoing me at 4 for some places, and 5 for others.

My memory usage goes up 100k the first time the research window loads,

My memory, every 2 - 3 turns after go up 30k, if I don't pass a turn I can build an do other things and push it up by 100k then when I pass a turn it stays at whatever level, the most noticeable difference for me though is after the  research window loads, it goes up 100k and then about 10 - 30 k after that every turn, its usually 10k a turn 30k when I complete something, however the ram fluctuates, even if I don't build any units and leave my sovereign in the same town, it keeps going up 30k, could be whateever the hell the AI is doing, but when I investigate them, they have a city and thats it. 

I'm going to try again.

Nah it seems to be spam memory increaseing in the map editor as well, I'm going to stay on it and see if I can get it to crash. I'll keep you posted.

I didn't realize there was another thread already.  I'll copy and paste what I wrote in the other thread since this one seems more active.

I took some screenshots of my game with the resource monitor on while in windowed mode. 

Here it is while at the menu screen.

When I loaded up my saved game.  It had already been at turn 197.  At this point I just kept clicking on the turn button, and expanding my cities, and the by the time i hit turn 291, the game was a little bit unresponsive at this point, and it did hang at one point for about a minute.  Also, there were weird instances where a couple of battles would not take place where they were supposed to be originally.  If you look at my save game (which I'll be providing a link to), there's a patch on the map that's uncovered even though I had not moved any units there.  For some reason, a battle taking place in one of my cities all of a sudden was transported to that patch of land.  It happened on two occassions. 

At the time I got my error message at turn 300 (Yes, I lost):

And finally a snapshot from the resource monitor:

Here's a copy of my debug:

http://rapidshare.com/files/410231745/debug.err.html

and a copy of my savegame:

http://rapidshare.com/files/410231841/oddgame3.EleSav.html

I'll try running the game with no audio to see if that does anything.

edit:  I should mention that during my playthrough i did not do a single tactical battle, they were all autoresolved.

Quite early in the game.  Autosave and debug.err, W7 64-bit.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16610/Elemental/20100731-CTD-622pm.zip

I'm not sure what, but something in this save causes the game to oom without me doing anything except going forth and conquesting the hell out of Magnar.  I oom'ed earlier, then reloaded from a point about five or six turns before this and it oom'ed again.  Unfortunately, I can't be sure of much more than that.  Hope this helps.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9606798/Rob%203.EleSav

I thought I wasn't having this issue, but I just played a game that ran out of memory ~300 turns:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9570272/Elemental0_98-2010-07-31T20-52-42-618.zip

i tried for 2 hours and couldn't get it to happen

then i tried for about 1/2 hour and got my OOM error

the only difference between the 2 times was i saw a npc battle happen while in 3d view, and got the oom error on the next turn.  In both i did heaps of auto battles, though all from the cloth map, the memory would get to 1600mb's, but never crash, it would hit there then drop back to 1580

Is there a difference for people to whether they spend all their time moving and fighting in the cloth map?

i'll try it out myself and see if i can get the oom to happen faster, could it be the garbage collector is collecting for our battles and just not the npc ones?

Edit:
the dmp and debug, nearly forgot:P
http://www.ltbb.org/images/Gwakapics/Elemental0_98-2010-08-01T17-37-38-584.zip