Friday Update, January 27, 2012

[Osprey]

Originally Posted by Richie

Can I ask a stupid question? What is a memory leak? Plus how is it effecting COD? Two questions then.

Here's my laymens take on it.

A memory leak occurs when the code allocates memory for the creation of objects/variables but does not free up that memory address after it is done with it.the result is an increasing memory footprint of the executable during operation (when the code with the leak is run) until such a point that there is no longer anymore for the system to use, so the program crashes. In COD you get a "Launcher has stopped working" and crash, or a crash to desktop (CTD). Killing the launcher exe and restarting fresh is the workaround.