Kernel Panic on Mac OS X

Hi,

I joined the support and they encouraged me to post my problem here so here I am !

I'm on a Macbook Pro non retina of January 2013 :
Intel Core i7 2,6GHz
8Go RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
OS X 10.9.1

When I run the party, kernel_task in the activity monitor increase a lot to reach about 5Go of RAM !
Everything freeze then I force to quit or let Planetary Annihilation crash...
I tried to put on low every setting but it's the same and it freeze and crash.

I don't know what to do :/


I can send the crash report that OS X gave me after the last crash if you want to (it's too long to be post here and I can't put a link because I'm new here :/)

Let me know if you have some idea...

So, did you actually get a kernel panic or did you panic because of how much CPU or RAM the kernel pulled? Either way I just checked on my system and the kernel is definitely unaffected by PA both in CPU usage and RAM. (Though PA pulls about 5 GB of RAM, and for some reason the 8 instances of Coherent UI pull a whopping 250% percent of combined processor usage)

Maybe you should really post the crash report, maybe on google docs or dropbox for example if you can't upload it here... (or use Pages beta if you have an iCloud account)

I tried to join the crash report as a pdf file (txt didn't work).

I was not focus on the CPU usage but only in the Memory part of the activity monitor.

When I said Kernel Panic I mean that everything freeze then it crash but my computer doesn't restart alone.

This is the RAM utilisation of the kernel_task that freeze everything but I don't know why.
PA is the problem because everything works fine without it (I use Photoshop or Lightroom and big files without problems).

I noticed that your Macbook has two graphics cards in it. Could you test running PA on both cards separately? I don't have a Macbook myself, but according to the Internet it should work like this:

Does PA crash your computer in both cases?

Yes I tried but it seems to do nothing on the problem :/

It does seem to be using 9.1 GiB if I read the report correctly. Can you try creating a small planet in the system editor and see if that works for you? Radius 200 is the smallest, I think.