Once the game is loaded you can safely set the textures back to high. In low population games, you’ll get away with it. Q: Help! The game crashes when it’s loading !Ī: You forgot to set the textures back on medium. Q: Do I need to start a new game when using this trick ?Ī: No, you should be able to play the old saves on your system. Steam uses up memory, you want to use as little memory as possible Q: Do I need to disable the steam overlayĪ: Yes, I highly recommend it. This can take a fair amount of work, and I don’t think the people at ubisoft are bothering for a 10 year old game (although they should if they decide to still sell it), so I’ll present to you the second best solution : To flush the excessive memory and reducing the memory load from the game. In an ideal world, the Anno binaries would be re-written for 64-bit. Setting the LAA flag (ie the 4gb patch) allows the program to actually use 4gb of RAN which helps a bit, since apps in a 32 bit environment can use only 2 gb of physical ram, to ensure that the kernel has sufficient RAM to remain stable (which does not matter for 64 bit systems as long as you have more than 4gb of RAM).

When playing the game, once 4gb of RAM is used up, the game crashes as it cannot find any more empty spots to store its variables, resulting in nasty CTDs or freezing. A common practice back then that works if you have a 32 bit OS (like most people did 10 years ago), but it does not work on a 64 bit OS like most people have now. This is because the developers made the memory overflow in the PAGE memory, masking the leak.

If you are old school like me and played the game back in 2009, you’ll know that it did not have that problem back then. This is a problem, as the Anno binaries are written in 32 bit: technically it can only see the first 4gb of RAM in your system. It all bears down to the fact that Anno 1404 has a rather severe memoryleak somewhere in it’s code (presumably texture related), and as a result it pumps unnecessary data into your RAM.

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