GAME INFORMATION
- GAME BUILD #: 101.102.8319.0 (#73855) 10078593
- GAME PLATFORM: Steam
- OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11
ISSUE EXPERIENCED
In the start menu AoE consumes about 1GB of GPU memory. This remains steady and appears normal. Then after a game is loaded, GPU memory consumption will steadily climb.
My system has shared 32GB GPU memory (as it is a iGPU). So after about 10-15min of gameplay, the GPU Mem would have been filled.
This then appears to spill over to system memory (which I have 64GB of). At this stage the game is reduced to ~10fps. The ‘3D’ GPU utilization is also reduced to 30% where normally it being utilized near 100%.
Then once the leak has consumed all of the system memory a crash to desktop will occur.
This issue appears to be affecting iGPU players:
Futher details:
13900K, 64GB RAM (no discrete GPU)
Mods enabled or disabled, doesnt matter. 4K UHD texture pack is not installed.
Can play at 4K with reasonable framerates.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
- 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)
REPRODUCTION STEPS
Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:
- Play the game with in intel iGPU (the 13900k is a Intel UHD 770)
EXPECTED RESULT
No crash to desktop, no memory leaks
IMAGE
(Cant be bothered recording as its quite uneventfull 15minutes)
GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)
Attached
AoE2DESteam-73855-2023.01.15-15.24.15.mdmp (315.2 KB)
rec.aoe2record (6.1 MB)
This to me appears to be a classic mem leak 
Not sure why only with iGPU’s though?
Goodluck!