I don't know on this last version, but on the 3b compressed one, in performance mode, the only way I could play was by saving every 5 minutes, exiting the game and continuing. I kept an eye on the memory usage, once it went over 12gb, save, exit, start and load. It was morose and quite boring, but I managed to advance from the start, up to, I dunno some dinner or something.
What I did notice, the memory would spike after the "info" screens. When there was a rapid fire stream of them, my memory usage went to the 30gb, in an instant. I thought that it would go down after those elements weren't on screen anymore, but no, it kept climbing. Save, Exit, Start and Load. Memory back to 700 mb or so. Then another bunch of "powers activation" back to 20 gb and climbing. At this point I decided to give up.
So, can anyone tell me, is this the same still or has this REALLY been fixed?
To be honest, in any other inferior story, this would have gone to the trash already. It is only because this is this good that I am willing to endure this torture, I do hope this is really fixed.
Peace