# Suspected memory leak

**URL:** <https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/suspected-memory-leak/84273>\
**Category:** Technical Support\
**Tags:** acknowledged\
**Created:** [October 14, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/suspected-memory-leak/84273 "2023-10-14T21:41:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![The\_Reprehensible](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/the_reprehensible/32/28355_2.png) [@The\_Reprehensible](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/The_Reprehensible)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/suspected-memory-leak/84273/1 "2023-10-14T21:41:46Z")

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**Issue Description:**  
Game crashed while blasting a crowd with bio-lightning on the Psyker…  
Checked my resource manager and saw the program suffered a gradual climb in memory usage over time… So I’m fairly certain the cause of the crash and error pop-up was a memory leak.

**Error Displayed (If Applicable):**  
_“Fatal error! Out of memory.”_  
or something like that.

**Steps to Reproduce:**  
Have the game open and play 6-9 hours? Dunno.  
Just keeping it open and playing for a long while, most of the day, seems to cause the crash/error…  
This is the second time I’ve encountered it since the most recent patch.

**Mission Name (If Applicable):**  
Uh, can’t say I recall…

**Platform:**  
[Steam]

**Player ID:**

> **[Steam Community :: ꙘĿт ꙳ ׅϾׅꜧꙙה](https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198063388018/)**

**Approx. Time of Issue & Timezone:**  
5:36pm EST

**Reproduction Rate:**  
Often (\<75%) - Constant (100%)

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**Upload Supporting Evidence:**  
Not much I can offer, sadly. The data shown in my resource manager doesn’t keep track past a minute or so… And I forgot to take a screenshot.  
Hopefully someone else can confirm and/or offer a fix for the issue.

## **[PC] Paste Crash Report, or Upload Console Log & darktide\_launcher.log:** GUID: ca13a53b-15ed-40c3-891f-aeccdf7c1cf2 Log File: Info Type:

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**Author:** ![FatsharkJulia](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/fatsharkjulia/32/11653_2.png) [@FatsharkJulia](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/FatsharkJulia)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 11:59am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/suspected-memory-leak/84273/2 "2023-10-16T11:59:11Z")

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I’ve shared this with our Engine Developers. Thank you for your report.

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**Author:** ![The\_Reprehensible](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/the_reprehensible/32/28355_2.png) [@The\_Reprehensible](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/The_Reprehensible)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/suspected-memory-leak/84273/3 "2023-10-17T13:32:20Z")

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So, further evidence… Logged into the game, wiped the memory usage, then watched it gradually climb even when nothing was going on in-game, in the lobby.  
Started with about 200,000 KB in use… And has been gradually climbing.  
It’s currently reached 2,151,324 KB used  
2,201,584 KB… 2,202,104 KB used…

Needless to say it’s just going up and up as I speak/type.  
And I have a great suspicion that it’ll skyrocket in growth as I actually play based on this baseline memory leak’s steady progression.