Seems like the desktop client (Windows) has a memory leak or something

[obtuse moth]

Over the course of the last 8-9 days since I downloaded the client I have had to close+reopen the game multiple times due to unplayable lag. One time the game lagged out my computer so hard that it fully froze and I had to manually reboot the computer via the power button.

for context; my PC specs are

Ryzen 7 7800X3D
GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
Samsung 990 Pro 2TB SSD
32GBs RAM
etc. etc.

The point is, pokeclicker shouldnt be able to crash a multi-thousand dollar gaming computer, so something is going on but I am not sure what.

[high locust]

so can you just double check where the paging file is

if the memory is leaking its happening somewhere during allocation

[lean crypt]

I've had similar issues but it was my actual hard drive that was the issue

[high locust]

its most likely not a pokeclicker issue itself but chromium requesting RAM from somewhere stupid ie. paging file on a hard drive

[lean crypt]

Are you windows os

[obtuse moth]

this?

[lean crypt]

If so id advise to do to re-download your operating system

[obtuse moth]

my computer/OS have been working fine for the last year since I built it. the ONLY game that has caused problems is pokeclicker

[high locust]

precisely that yes, 8gb paging with 32gb ram is kinda insane

you want it to be on a fast drive with space

maximum allocation up to 3x RAM

[obtuse moth]

as in it should be higher or lower?

[high locust]

over 1.5x at *least

[obtuse moth]

so higher than 8gb

[high locust]

much much higher

[obtuse moth]

ok I can bump that up ezpz

[high locust]

windows generally does fine but if youre experiencing memory issues it is almost certainly windows interacting with hybrid drives or HDDs and the caching is fragmenting the virtual memory

also this will sound stupid but restart your rig every now and then

[obtuse moth]

yeah I restart it every so often. aside from restarts I leave it idling 24/7 tho

[high locust]

yeah not great practice but i wont tell you how to live life

im very adamant about turning it off but generally nowadays its not a huge worry

just things like caches can get wonky

windows forgets to clear things sometimes

especially on win11

fun fact the start menu is a react native application

thats why now matter what pc u have it lags a bit

[obtuse moth]

alright, have the range set for 1.5-3x my ram.

If I am still having problems over the next few days Ill report back

whoops didnt mean to reply to that one

thanks for the help, yall!

[high locust]

ping me if u need anything, i had to go through a bunbch of crap do due memory management a couple weeks ago so its still pretty fresh

if you notice it doing it again open console and have a look to see if its failing to load something

that would be a big telltale of where things are going wrong

[obtuse moth]

so, it is lagging again, maybe a dumb question but how do I open the console in pokeclicker?

I learned it is chromium, but control +shift +j isnt doing it and I dont see any option in the "start menu" dropdown in game

[high locust]

its ctrl shift i

haha, theres the problem

[high locust]

try a reinstall rq

i dont know of a way to force an update

[obtuse moth]

saved, reinstalling

[fresh tartan]

unrelated

thats from the item modal

[obtuse moth]

already reinstalled now. next time it lags Ill check back in again

[obtuse moth]

laggy again XD

it only took 6 hours of being left open this time

[crude stone]

by chance do you have a windows update available?