I am having issues with high memory usage under linux. Currently running manjaro (arch) 4gb RAM, Nvidia 9800gt 1GB, and a quad 3.0ghz amd processor.
My distro uses ~450-500mb of memory after boot, with steam loaded. I launch Cities Skylines and the game will hit 1gb of memory usage just at the menu, and even on the absolute lowest settings it will use up every bit of memory available and will not work if I try and stop it in any way. I can barely load it on the lowest settings, shadows disabled, everything at low and off. If I even try and bump it up to medium the game simply will not load, or just noisily closes itself shortly after loading the save.
I have ran the game on the same rig under windows and I can have medium settings all the way. I even ran it under WINE in linux/PoL and was able to get better performance with higher settings than in windows, but I was experiencing some crashes/instability with menus.
One thing I noted is when the game crashes from OOM it does not say this in the logs at all, they just kind of end. I am getting a crazy amount of core dumps filling up my drive though, I removed over 4 gigs of them earlier today.
**edit**
Oops, Apparently I did not know my swap partition was off. Re enabling the swap partition allows me to play the game with graphics maxed, albeit with an ungodly load time, and occasional freezes/stuttering, and trying to save locks it up.
also running
My initial concern still stands though, the game is eating up over 3gb of memory, and I checked my swap which is another 3 1/2 GB and the game had eaten up another 40% of it. It is eating through memory fast.
My distro uses ~450-500mb of memory after boot, with steam loaded. I launch Cities Skylines and the game will hit 1gb of memory usage just at the menu, and even on the absolute lowest settings it will use up every bit of memory available and will not work if I try and stop it in any way. I can barely load it on the lowest settings, shadows disabled, everything at low and off. If I even try and bump it up to medium the game simply will not load, or just noisily closes itself shortly after loading the save.
I have ran the game on the same rig under windows and I can have medium settings all the way. I even ran it under WINE in linux/PoL and was able to get better performance with higher settings than in windows, but I was experiencing some crashes/instability with menus.
One thing I noted is when the game crashes from OOM it does not say this in the logs at all, they just kind of end. I am getting a crazy amount of core dumps filling up my drive though, I removed over 4 gigs of them earlier today.
**edit**
Oops, Apparently I did not know my swap partition was off. Re enabling the swap partition allows me to play the game with graphics maxed, albeit with an ungodly load time, and occasional freezes/stuttering, and trying to save locks it up.
also running
as root before running the game helps stop the minidumps causing a lot of issues. (Seems to get reset after every restart so needs to be re done)
My initial concern still stands though, the game is eating up over 3gb of memory, and I checked my swap which is another 3 1/2 GB and the game had eaten up another 40% of it. It is eating through memory fast.
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