Running out of Memory during Gameplay, any ideas?

Kirklle

Kirklle

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hi there people,

I followed the advice given from Sean's Windows Optimisation thread and disabled Paging File for my SSD. Whilst playing Batman, windows 8.1 64bit is interrupting and saying that i'm running out of memory and must close the game.

I've install 2 x 4gb of ram (avexir blitz 1.1) and also modded the CAS timings to suit my memory at the BIOS.

Do you think its a case of not having enough RAM?

Processor: i5 3.50ghz Devils Canyon
Graphics: geforce 970 4gb
Gaming 7 Motherboard

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kirk
 
Sure its not VRAM? I have never seen my memory usage go above 6.5GB! I game at 1200p however and I am on Win7 64bit. I would also leave the swap (page file/Virtual memory) to let windows mange, it is also used for Work In Progress, or WIP.
 
Thanks for the advice.

Its only something that I followed from the thread, wasnt 100% sure what it actually did. I'll follow that you said.
 
You need a paging file to resolve this, I was having this same issue and it was because my paging file was too small (it was being system managed but on a disk i filled over time so it could not grow) , set it at 2-4x system ram and you should be OK, if it is a fixed size at least you know you always have space and don't run out like i did.

Before setting paging file do a disk defrag on the one you ae going to use and then set and reboot.
 
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Set your page file to Initial size 1GB, max size 2-8GB job done, minimal disc impact from the page file, enough space to write out BSOD dumps, etc. if needed and correct behaviour from all applications.

There is no need to set it to several times your system RAM these days (exception being on a system that is compiling large datasets or something like that).
 
Yep as above, you absolutely need a pagefile.sys; the old trick of removing it used to work to force the OS to use all available RAM but with recent OS' being a lot better, you no longer need to do this at all, in fact, it can slow your system down considerably.
 
Glad you're sorted :) it's unfortunate that people continue to advise others to turn off paging despite it being at best a no-gain scenario and often cause people problems.

Good opening post, included the relevant information which is excellent, normally takes much longer to work out what's gone wrong!
 
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