Graphical memory leak in 2.2

[Nihale]

I've noticed that since 2.2 and in the subsequent patches (inc the 2.2.3 beta) there seems to be an issue where the graphics and gameplay starts to stutter after an hour or 2 and weird graphical bugs start to build up. This seems to coincide with a steady uptick in memory used, and is fixed by exiting the game completely and re-entering.

Graphical bugs include:

• Random colur patches instead of emblems
• National symbols on systems not cropping correctly, showing a square intead of the usual diamond.
• If left long enough the top half of the screen blanks out with a random colour.

If left long enough when the issues start the game tends to crash after a couple of minutes but the computer as a whole doesn't freeze. Which (to me) implies a gpu specific memory management issue.

For reference: I load the game up using steam, I don't play with any mods, this issue only started in 2.2.

 

[Gyrvendal]

I experience stuttering, but none of your other issues. You should file a bug report with your specs, it's probably an issue of compatibility with your graphics card.

 

[Roddo]

Also, check your GPU. It might be telling you something.
Fastest way to check it's not the GPU per se and ruling it out is loading up a gpu-taxing game and let it run for a while, see if it presents same or other graphical errors.

 

[AlanC9]

I've noticed some odd issues lately myself. Might be a bad Nvidia update; I've been having problems with less-demanding programs, but not with higher end stuff.