"Your computer is low on memory" when its clearly not

Anonymous
2013-11-09T16:08:20+00:00

This problem started when i upgraded from windows 8 to windows 8.1

When i run a game, for example, Arma3 randomly throughout my game i'll be thrown back to windows desktop and presented with a message saying "Your computer is low on memory. Save your files and close these programs: 'Game name here'"

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As you can see from the above screenshot i have 2.6gb in use and 5.3 free, so why does it think its out of memory?

I have set my pagefile from "system managed" to 16gb initial - 24gb max

This made no difference whatsoever..

My hardware has not changed, Like i said i noticed this almost instantly after upgrading to 8.1

Any help would be appreciated because as far as i'm aware theres no way to revert back to 8 from 8.1?

Thanks

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Anonymous
2015-02-05T01:19:41+00:00

Thanks Adriaan - I have changed the registry setting and rebooting seems to help.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-11-12T23:25:58+00:00

    I have a similar issue. Exact same error. The game is "Elemental: Fallen Sorceress", it's launched through Steam. On a Surface Pro 2 128GB, the game uses only 500-600 MB RAM. According to Ressource Monitor, total RAM in use on the machine is about 2-2.3 GB when the pop up shows up. A lot more than 1 GB RAM is unused when the pop up appears, usually there's almost 2 GB RAM free (1.5 GB Standby, .5 GB Free).

    There's no memory leak issue, otherwise the memory would be in use by the leaking process. In the Resource Monitor I can see that the memory was at no time anywhere near critical. Since the Resource Monitor takes snapshots every seconds, I could only imagine that the application allocates the memory for a few milliseconds and frees it afterwards.

    There are no errors in the event viewer error logs at the times this happens.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-12-08T20:54:45+00:00

    I have had the same issue.  Happens on multiple games.  Path of Exile, Metro 2033, Darksiders and a few more.  The message box doesn't kick me out of the game but still bothers me it is popping up when there should be plenty of memory.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-11-13T05:13:13+00:00

    heres the error report for arma3:

    Faulting application name: arma3.exe, version: 1.4.111.745, time stamp: 0x52730252

    Faulting module name: ts3overlay_hook_win32.dll, version: 3.7.23.0, time stamp: 0x518a77e5

    Exception code: 0xc0000005

    Fault offset: 0x0001811f

    Faulting process ID: 0x11e0

    Faulting application start time: 0x01cedf9a826d45fb

    Faulting application path: D:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\arma3.exe

    Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\TeamSpeak 3 Client\plugins\ts3overlay\ts3overlay_hook_win32.dll

    Report ID: a065a6ee-4b97-11e3-bedc-20689dd0b5b2

    Faulting package full name:

    Faulting package-relative application ID:

    All my drivers are up-to-date as per the latest non beta nvidia drivers, as are all other drivers.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-11-11T14:43:43+00:00

    Hi, thanks for your reply.

    Troubleshooting (as administrator) yielded no results

    Heres is an error report of the latest occurrence of this issue:

    http://pastebin.com/KcPfBcCP

    Thanks

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