OK, this whole memory leak thing is really starting to scare me.
Here's the deal. This afternoon, I decided to finish up the main FS2 campaign. I started the game with -timerbar enabled, just to see how demanding it was on my system. Most of the time it was 2 red bars, with the occasional 10. I got to the last level, and I was fighting off some bombers, and one caught me by surprise and got the better of me. I was tired of playing, so I just decided to hit shift+esc to quickly end it, but instead, the whole screen went black, except there were red lines all the way down the screen. I waited for 5 minutes. I could hear events happening in the background. I hit my hotkey to start winamp to play whatever was loaded at the time, and It was responding. However, I still only saw a red and black striped screen, with the FS2 cursor dead center. Since I couldnt see what was going on, I couldnt do a restart, so I just hit the reset button.
Well, here I am, 5 hours later, astonished at how WMCoolmon can make a total of 9 replies in about 5 minutes, and then suddenly, something WAY out of the ordinary happens. My entire screen fills up with random graphical artifacts. About a split second later, it shows up as an understandable image. Every second line of pixels was red. There were recognisable elements, such as the HUD showing between the lines. They were all in really weird places. I also saw a large chunk of recognisable debris, namely the collossus being destroyed (the game hung for about 10 seconds when that happened). I also saw what looked like to be a few explosion sprites in random areas, clipping with other elements.
So, in closing, I'd like to know WTF just happened! In my 10 years of computer expertise, I have NEVER seen anything like this, and I would expect it even less coming from a luke-warm boot. Is it possible that the memory leaking protected memory, as in resident even during a soft reset? I'd really like to know what's going on.
