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Windows Media Player memory hole?

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Dan0512

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Well, lately my WMP 11 has been acting strangely. After running the program for some hours, it starts to eat RAM in crazy amounts.

I noticed this a few days ago when I was playing CS:S and listening to some music, alt-tabbed to change the playlist in WMP, and noticed a virtual memory warning. Checked my task manager, and I was using around 1.6GB! Usually when I play CS:S it uses around ~600. Closed WMP, and voila, the PF went back to 600.

Today it happened again, I left the comp DLing and left WMP open (but not doing anything, idle). Checked the PF, and it was around 900MB! Closed it, and it went back to normal numbers.

Anyone have an idea why that's happening?

Wasn't like this before.

dan
 
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