Ok. I just had another attempt at the rooter repair puzzle this morning. And no, I wasn't able to complete the repair before I ran out of memory and more interestingly disk IO, then game crashed. Screenshots attached. What I find most interesting is that the memory bug may actually be a symptom of high disk IO. There appears to be runaway disk IO activity that is causing the memory bug and exhaustion. Note that my disk IO is off the charts on a reasonably high end SSD. Which points at some possible issue in the image IO logic probably causing it to buffer in the images into memory in an out of control way exhausting memory by loading in the images into memory too many times until there is none left.
