I was mostly defending what I had said in my original post, which was before any of that.
Having audio enabled is almost certainly going to use more memory because additional resources have to be loaded. It doesn't necessarily mean there's a leak with audio itself (though I'm not ruling it out). If the increase is substantial then it's something that can be looked into, though the results so far have been a bit varied.
The post with screenshots of the task manager actually showed little variance (and actually slightly less being used with audio enabled):
Anything without screenshots or video evidence is considered anecdotal. It's nothing personal, but the TLOPO team needs something concrete to go off of.
That crash is an out-of-memory error encountered when trying to load some audio effects. It doesn't necessarily mean that loading audio is causing a memory issue, just a symptom of a memory issue. I know the distinction might appear trivial, but it's rather important when it comes to tracking these things down.
I didn't mean to imply that it's a problem with their computer. By localized I mean that if audio is causing problems, it's likely specific to how it interacts with something else (sailing it sounds like, but also perhaps also certain hardware configurations?). Until it can be determined exactly what circumstances are problematic, it's difficult for the TLOPO team to determine what the issue is, let alone reproduce or fix.
We're not ignoring anyone, and I apologize if I sounded dismissive. There's hundreds of bugs and crashes caused by dozens of different things. We need more information to establish a direct correlation.
Well, again, I apologize if I came off rude, as it was not the intention, but I think I speak for most posters in this thread when I say, we all kinda feel like, the TLOPO staff, not yourself exclusively, are just dismissing the problem. I'm convinced there is a LARGE problem connected to in-game audio, again, not gonna call it a leak, but its there, its real, and its bad. Forgive me, but I can't provide "video or picture" evidence of my experiences at the moment, but there's a problem, that I hope to see resolved. The game PLAYS sooo much better with sound off, and it's not even exclusive to sailing, its everything. It's my job as a player/tester, to find out everything I can, in-game, to report to you all, to have fixed in the future, so if you would, please let me know, what I can do, to get you viable evidence, that audio is causing massive issues? I don't mean that in a passive-aggressive tone either, I genuinely want this problem to go away, like, yesterday, so if you let me know what you need, myself, and maybe even a close friend, will do everything we can to satisfy that request, because to me, this issue, is the biggest, most game-breaking one I've encountered.
