Interesting. Maybe a memory leak?

[Masta Squidge]

So I left last night to head over to the girlfriend's place. I got home and discovered myself still logged in, in space, at the haz res I left my Corvette chilling in.


Almost no fuel remaining, no surprise there, but what I immediately noticed was the game was running at a whopping 1 or 2 fps.

Real quick hit the task manager and discovered ED using over 22 GB of ram.


No big deal since I just rebooted the game and it's fine, but check that out.

 

[Masta Squidge]

As an aside, fuel rats hooked me up. First time I have ever used them, smooth as silk.

 

[metatheurgist]

Yeah, sometimes the game runs smooth for me. Other times it will slowly choke until the framerate is so low I have to restart.

 

[SMcA]

So I left last night to head over to the girlfriend's place. I got home and discovered myself still logged in, in space, at the haz res I left my Corvette chilling in.


Almost no fuel remaining, no surprise there, but what I immediately noticed was the game was running at a whopping 1 or 2 fps.

Real quick hit the task manager and discovered ED using over 22 GB of ram.


No big deal since I just rebooted the game and it's fine, but check that out.

I have something similar. If I leave the launcher running after I exit the game to desktop. The memory usage climbs high and only drops when exiting the launcher

 

[Morbad]

I have something similar. If I leave the launcher running after I exit the game to desktop. The memory usage climbs high and only drops when exiting the launcher

The launcher and game use different executables, and the game doesn't even require the launcher be left running.

The launcher is essentially a browser window, and responds to Window's browser (IE) settings, that could have something to do with what you were experiencing.

 

[Morbad]

Even if internet explorer or bing isn't running? I'm only using chrome and firefox and never met this phenomenon, while I'm frequently many, many hours in the game.
My launcher is always open btw.

Open the launcher and r-click on the background and click properties. You can see that much of the launcher functionality is basically a front-end for IE. IE privacy and security settings, possibly even add-ons, apply to it. If the launcher is running, IE is running.

I've never encountered that issue with the launcher either, just musing about possible mechanisms for it.

 

[Speedcuffs]

So I left last night to head over to the girlfriend's place. I got home and discovered myself still logged in, in space, at the haz res I left my Corvette chilling in.


Almost no fuel remaining, no surprise there, but what I immediately noticed was the game was running at a whopping 1 or 2 fps.

Real quick hit the task manager and discovered ED using over 22 GB of ram.


No big deal since I just rebooted the game and it's fine, but check that out.

Did you have an SLF launched?

 

[Masta Squidge]

Did you have an SLF launched?

Nope.

 

[Masta Squidge]

Open the launcher and r-click on the background and click properties. You can see that much of the launcher functionality is basically a front-end for IE. IE privacy and security settings, possibly even add-ons, apply to it. If the launcher is running, IE is running.

I've never encountered that issue with the launcher either, just musing about possible mechanisms for it.

You can clearly see the launcher isn't the issue as it is its own process in the task manager lol

 

[Morbad]

You can clearly see the launcher isn't the issue as it is its own process in the task manager lol

Yes, that's essentially what I was telling SMcA.

 

[Morbad]

No right click properties for me on the open launcher. Interesting...

The launcher is mostly a browser window with a link to this page and a button that launches the game's executable with the right arguments to log you in.

If internet explorer would be running I should see it in the task manager. It's not.

The lack of an IE process doesn't mean IE is absent. MSHTML is IE's browser engine, and my launcher quite clearly uses it to display the page I linked above.

I seem to recall that I have uninstalled IE some time ago after microsoft lost a case (probably only related to European law) where it was forced to make IE optional. I just wanted to check out if it works. Obviously it did - it's gone! But the launcher runs happily without it. Maybe we just found the source why I don't have so many issues others are frequently reporting?

The launcher is a separate executable with a separate process and shouldn't affect the game after it's launched at all. A problem with MSHTML, or whatever browser engine SMcA's launcher was using, could explain his launcher's apparent memory leak, but not any problems with the game proper.

 

[Good Death]

I'm not going to argue with you as I also see the launcher as the culprit here. The attachment in the OP clearly shows the Elite Dangerous Executable using up 22 GB memory, not the launcher.

So what exactly are you trying to say?

 

[SMcA]

The launcher is a separate executable with a separate process and shouldn't affect the game after it's launched at all. A problem with MSHTML, or whatever browser engine SMcA's launcher was using, could explain his launcher's apparent memory leak, but not any problems with the game proper.

Sorry for adding confusion to the thread. My issue is with the launcher not the game and the memory leak mentioned in the OP prompted me to add my tuppence worth. The launcher memory leaking only started after the September update. It is no big deal.