Windows 7 more bossing fixes

My husband's a programmer, and he says that learning to clear memory caches should be one of the most basic things learned as a programmer, especially when it comes to gaming. All of the players that you see from the moment you log on don't get removed out of the memory cache until the moment you close out the client. That means all of the spammers you see in the Free Market Entrance have their graphical data stored in the cache and bogging down memory that it shouldn't be used once they're on a different map.

I'm a programmer myself. I know that freeing up unused or unneeded memory is one of the first things you learn. That doesn't change the fact that if some idiot put in leaky code somewhere, it would be very hard for someone else (or that same idiot, for that matter) to find it, years after the fact.

If what you're saying about the character avatars is true, the problem is deeper, it's in the design. One can't just say, purge an avatar from memory once you're not on the same map, because, for example, in a PQ you're constantly re-meeting the same people on different maps. Clearing and reloading their avatars every time would be wasteful. Must implement some kind of cache, and LRU, and so on... Just one of the many re-designs the game's infrastructure needs.


As for bossing issues: for me they've been getting worse. I run on XP and used to have 0 problems. Now I often end up with transparent dialog windows after just one or two zruns, with no more than 3 people at altar, and on graphics quality 2-3. And oh yeah, if I don't switch graphics quality at body changes, it's much more likely to happen, and sometimes third body starts winking in and out as well.