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newest ACT version has a memory leak or something

nucodenucode
in General ACT Discussion
I just went afk for half an hour, came back to my computer to find it unresponsive, ACT was using 100% CPU and 100% memory.
I'm using overlay target, overlay dps meter, cactbot...

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  • EQAdituEQAditu
    The latest version of ACT is 3 months old and no one else has said such a thing before.
  • nucodenucode
    edited February 2021
    That's not true, there was an update today after the recent FFXIV 5.45 hotfix. There was a popup to update and restart. Maybe it was one of the mods I'm using that updated.
    FFXIV_ACT_Plugin.dll 2.0.8.4
    OverlayPlugin.dll 0.16.5.0
    CactbotOverlay.dll 0.21.19.0
    I'm using these overlays: Eureka, kagerou, raidboss, target
    I was in a party of two people, we were farming fates out in Azim Steppes, I went afk for 30 minutes. Came back to a locked up computer, ACT consuming all of my system resources. I killed the process and everything went back to normal. That usually only happens from a stack overflow or a memory leak or a recursive function allocating resources in an infinite loop. Just giving you some hints, I don't know anything at all about the architecture or anything, but something changed in today's update that is doing something bad.
  • EQAdituEQAditu


    You said "ACT version" in the General ACT forums.  I can't help if you're reporting a bug in those plugins as I don't make any of them.  I won't be fixing it personally.

    If it has to do with a 3rd party plugin, you should report your perceived bug to the plugin authors as the best I can do is pass it along, which at that point becomes the children's game "telephone".  If the authors have any further questions, I won't have any way to help them.

    The FFXIV Plugin was updated after the last game patch, as always.  Nothing in Ravahn's Discord mirrors your report, where the FFXIV Plugin, OverlayPlugin and Cactbot authors all participate.
  • nucodenucode
    This sounds like a similar or possibly related issue here:
    https://discord.com/channels/551474815727304704/551527590800654386/810978706545573898

    I'm not sure how much help I can provide, I don't know if logs exist on my system that could be helpful or what. I'll post on discord.
  • SturmxSturmx
    edited March 2022
    I just had this as well with ACT in FFXIV. Have a 12700k and my FPS suddenly plunged to 50 from 130. I checked task manager and ACT was using 97% of my CPU. Ending it fixed it. Opened it back up and set my CPU affinity to only use my E-Cores on my 12700k. Hopefully that does something. I saw CPU priority is above normal. I've never had to change that but if I change it to normal will that have a noticeable negative effect? (Old post I know but same exact thing)
  • Somerandom18Somerandom18
    I had this same problem yesterday. It pegged my 12900k at 100% causing serious thermal throttling and performance issues to the point where my PC was hanging. There is absolutely an issue.



  • EQAdituEQAditu
    Regardless, it cannot be fixed by myself.  So reporting it here is useless.
  • groljakgroljak
    I had the same problem several times. Never before 6.1 but after that it started happening a few times. 100% CPU usage, lagging out the whole pc. Stopping ACT fixed it immediately every time. 
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