There seems to be memory leak problem in the game.

[Willie_HK 2]

My PC handles every games well except this one, there seems to be a consistent problem of memory leak running the game, the progressive lag comes every half a hour or so playing a medium sized map with even a fairly rural town until I save, exit to planet and re-enter.

The problem persists throughout the patches.

I did only very simple testing using task manager, it seems the game was using lots of page files already after 30mins in game, my hdd is a sata2 with 32mb cache, it was not under heavy load. Then I checked the memory status, usage was well below 40% of 6134mb.

I doubt if this only happens on X64 systems. This makes the game hardly playable, for this reason I am not going to buy it.

Partial dxdiag

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Operating System: Windows Vista? Home Premium (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.lh_sp2rtm.090410-1830)

Processor: Intel® Core i7 CPU 920  @ 2.67GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.7GHz

Language: Chinese (Traditional) (Regional Setting: Chinese (Traditional))

System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.

System Model: Studio XPS 435MT

BIOS: Default System BIOS

Memory: 6134MB RAM

Page File: 1828MB used, 10621MB available

DirectX Version: DirectX 10

DxDiag Version: 6.00.6001.18000 32bit Unicode

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Card name: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.

Chip type: ATI display adapter (0x9442)

DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)

Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9442&SUBSYS_05021028&REV_00

Display Memory: 3315 MB

Dedicated Memory: 504 MB

Shared Memory: 2811 MB

Current Mode: 1680 x 1050 (32 bit) (60Hz)

Monitor: Dell SP2208WFP(Digital)

Driver Name: atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll

Driver Version: 8.14.0010.0685 (English)

DDI Version: 10.1

Driver Attributes: Final Retail

[Da_Brain 0]

I hate to disappoint you but that problem has been around for testers since day one and what your doing is the only thing you can do until some decade it's fixed.

[Willie_HK 2]

That's really discouraging. =="

[DCMetro34 577]

Yea, and it's making many not buy the game, like you.......and me.

[mogmoogle 0]

and me 

[chocolate_city 93]

Instant gratification is a $%&^! ain't it... Sorry ... I couldn't help myself... you'd be missing out on a great game... Personally,  I have some maps that are almost completely paved over, cities with some up to 35 million, and the memory leak doesn't really hinder my playing experience.... and further more .... the game is dirt cheap ....  I bought CitiesXL 2011 for 14.00 ... got the upgrade to 2012 for another 5 bucks and that lead to me getting CitiesXL platinum for another 4.99. Plus with all the content available at XLNation.net (A much more friendly forum for XL enthusiests) it makes it all worth it... and guess what ... its your game should you decide to keep it... 

[Munchiez 74]

They say that CXL uses an old graphics engine from 2005, I guess that's what is causing lag for most people.