Ugh. I've tried playing a bit of KCD2 and there appears to be a newly introduced bug in a recent update. Damn game is crashing all the time now and I'm losing progress every time it happens unless I save like crazy. Some of the Windows prompts indicate out of memory issues, and it does appear that when I have browsers open (which use a ton of RAM), the crashes happen all the time, whereas when I keep browsers closed, the crashes rarely happen. But I'm nowhere near using up all RAM. I have 32GB, and the crashes seem to happen more when my total system usage is >16GB. But the game used to run fine with >20GB system usage prior to recent updates. I don't think I've ever seen my system usage over 22GB. That's with both Chrome and Firefox open with tons of tabs, Libre Office, Gnucash, and KCD2.

^^ The wonders of multi-process architecture of modern web browsers virtual machines for executing huge blobs of JavaScript that nobody really needs, but is justified in the name of job security.

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clueless1 wrote on Yesterday, 14:19:

Ugh. I've tried playing a bit of KCD2 and there appears to be a newly introduced bug in a recent update. Damn game is crashing all the time now and I'm losing progress every time it happens unless I save like crazy. Some of the Windows prompts indicate out of memory issues, and it does appear that when I have browsers open (which use a ton of RAM), the crashes happen all the time, whereas when I keep browsers closed, the crashes rarely happen. But I'm nowhere near using up all RAM. I have 32GB, and the crashes seem to happen more when my total system usage is >16GB. But the game used to run fine with >20GB system usage prior to recent updates. I don't think I've ever seen my system usage over 22GB. That's with both Chrome and Firefox open with tons of tabs, Libre Office, Gnucash, and KCD2.

"Out of memory" errors are ambiguious, you're either actually unable to allocate the physical RAM or the virtual address space itself is becoming exhausted.

If it's the latter I'd be very concerned how the hell that's even happening since 64-bit native executables have a virtual address space in the size of several terabytes.

clueless1 wrote on Yesterday, 14:19:

Ugh. I've tried playing a bit of KCD2 and there appears to be a newly introduced bug in a recent update. Damn game is crashing all the time now and I'm losing progress every time it happens unless I save like crazy. Some of the Windows prompts indicate out of memory issues, and it does appear that when I have browsers open (which use a ton of RAM), the crashes happen all the time, whereas when I keep browsers closed, the crashes rarely happen. But I'm nowhere near using up all RAM. I have 32GB, and the crashes seem to happen more when my total system usage is >16GB. But the game used to run fine with >20GB system usage prior to recent updates. I don't think I've ever seen my system usage over 22GB. That's with both Chrome and Firefox open with tons of tabs, Libre Office, Gnucash, and KCD2.

Too much memory fragmentation maybe ?

Web browsers are OSes now. I close them out of spite anyway.

Apparently my system needed a reboot (even though I restarted it only a couple days prior). Now it's working like a champ with both browsers open.

Tyranny
I just completed this a couple of hours ago. It took me just over 40 hours to do everything I could find, including the "Bastard's Wound" expansion, and I really liked the game overall.

The most interesting thing about Tyranny is its setting. Instead of being the chosen one out to save the world, you're a high-ranking official in a brutal, conquering regime, and it's your duty to act basically as judge, jury, and executioner as you see fit, in order to carry out the will of Overlord Kyros. The game gives you quite some leeway in how you solve problems, and you can be as brutal or lenient (or even traitorous) as you want. In true Obsidian style, there are multiple factions to ally with or betray, and many of the choices you make throughout the game determine where the story goes and how it ends.

It plays mostly like any other similar isometric RPG with real-time-with-pause combat (Baldur's Gate, Pillars, etc.). There are some interesting differences, however. The most interesting is the spell creation system, in which you combine a root element with various effect sigils. Even better, you can upgrade your existing spells by swapping in more powerful sigils as you find them and also by adding even more effects as your Lore skills improves throughout the game.

Unfortunately, the game (on the default difficulty level anyway) becomes unbelievably easy not even halfway through the game. You automatically heal in between fights, and all abilities/spells are on countdown timers (with the exception of a handful of unique abilities that can only be used once per rest), so there is no resource management whatsoever. Every battle ends up feeling pretty much the same a few hours into the game.

Although combat is pretty disappointing, the point of the game is luckily not combat but instead in exploring the setting, making choices, and seeing what happens. It was worth putting up with some dull combat to play through such an entertaining game, and I could definitely see myself playing through it again and making different choices.