Another observation - the effects have a huge impact on how quickly memory is consumed. All effects on highest will run out of memory fairly quickly on even a 2 player map, while all effects on low takes much much longer to run out of memory.
I've had consistent crashes to the point I've started tracking how it crashes. The verdict at this point is memory usage. Every crash occurs once sins hits ~1.8G it crashes and writes a nice dump file. Sins doesn't seem to leak until starting a game... if I just enter sins and sit at the main menu, it holds about 450M. Starting a new 'balance of power' moves it up to ~880M, but it will continue to climb quickly. If I quit back to the main menu the memory usage will continue to c
