UI became very unresponsive

[RobC04]

I have been alt-tabbing out of PoN to read the manual, check the forums, etc... After about 12 turns (but several hours of running), the UI became so unresponsive that I had to shut down PoN and restart it. I would click on buttons and the window would not open.

I saw people mention that they alt-tab out since turn resolutions take a while, so I figured it would be ok for me to do so. Are there any known memory leaks from alt-tabbing, or after the game has been running for several hours? I'm not sure what caused the slow down.

Thanks,
Rob

[Pocus]

No leaks I know about.

[Philippe]

Could be my imagination, but the game seemed to become much more responsive after I opened up the saves folder and deleted the saves of games I wasn't playing. Before I did that I couldn't even open the Load section.

[RobC04]

Once I restarted it was ok. The Load Game screen does take a long time though when there are 20 save game files though.

[Drax]

I'm constantly alt tabbing without any issue since weeks of playing PON. Just be careful to UNcheck the option about the processor going into sleepy mode if out of focus (-> Options -> System -> UNcheck Sleepy mode). Otherwise it can take super long before the game "come" back from sleepy mode - I suppose all data have to be reloaded like when you start the game...

[Pocus]

Once I restarted it was ok. The Load Game screen does take a long time though when there are 20 save game files though.

Indeed, this is a known issue, coming from the fact that in order to display a particular save game, the engine looks into the file to get a few informations... And the whole add up. Sorry for this.