Memory Leak on Re-load

That has always been that bad, that's not new. You should never "reload" a game. You should never go back to the main menu, no matter what you've done, and on which save. Go back to desktop before to load something.

When you've reach a certain point, not that big, even going back from a loaded save to the main menu will take much more longer than closing the game and re-opening it.

Yes, I agree, it's a shame, but that how it is so far.

There's some memories, somewhere, that don't clean.

Edited May 8, 2020 by OxCD

If they are interested in streamlining and improving the game, they should know this effect exists. Whether they do anything about it is up  to them, I've obviously known about this for a long time, and play the game anyhow. My machine is old enough that it can often take 5 minutes when I exit the game on steam before my machine can do anything else, while re-loading from within the game (the first few times) is much faster, as it takes only about a minute or two, instead of five minutes before I can hit the 'play' button again, and about three minutes of loading time.

Just to add: this is not unique to Windows. Linux exhibits the same behaviour. There's no reason to assume Macs don't suffer this too.

It's easy enough to check on memory usage. I'll do this later. But I have a 16 GB machine so the slowdown should not be related to memory ballooning (unless it's the GPU RAM having trouble?)

Memory leaks, severe slowdown.. these kind of bugs should definitely be considered major.

I shared my result of a memory leak test a while back. I can't find the post. Meanwhile nothing has changed.