"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
    2016-01-19T00:56:33+00:00

    Bennet,

    I am running Windows 10. I keep getting the message "your computer is low on memory and close Internet Explorer now" All I am doing is searching the web, no other programs are open.

    I did what you suggested: went to Event viewer/Windows Log/Application log. I found several red errors. I copied the first red-colored error below:

    Log Name:      Application

    Source:        Windows Backup

    Date:          1/18/2016 3:00:02 AM

    Event ID:      4103

    Task Category: None

    Level:         Error

    Keywords:      Classic

    User:          N/A

    Computer:      Owner-PC

    Description:

    The backup did not complete because of an error writing to the backup location E:. The error is: The backup location cannot be found or is not valid. Review your backup settings and check the backup location. (0x81000006).

    Event Xml:

    <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

      <System>

        <Provider Name="Windows Backup" />

        <EventID Qualifiers="0">4103</EventID>

        <Level>2</Level>

        <Task>0</Task>

        <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

        <TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-01-18T09:00:02.797666400Z" />

        <EventRecordID>92548</EventRecordID>

        <Channel>Application</Channel>

        <Computer>Owner-PC</Computer>

        <Security />

      </System>

      <EventData>

        <Data>E:&lt;/Data>

        <Data>The backup location cannot be found or is not valid. Review your backup settings and check the backup location. (0x81000006)</Data>

        <Binary>060000819E0500007B0800009D080000420ED1665C2BEE174B64529CB14610EA71000000</Binary>

      </EventData>

    </Event>

    Second red error message I copied below:

    Log Name:      Application

    Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Perflib

    Date:          1/18/2016 12:32:39 AM

    Event ID:      1008

    Task Category: None

    Level:         Error

    Keywords:      Classic

    User:          N/A

    Computer:      Owner-PC

    Description:

    The Open Procedure for service "BITS" in DLL "C:\Windows\System32\bitsperf.dll" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error code.

    Event Xml:

    <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

      <System>

        <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Perflib" Guid="{13B197BD-7CEE-4B4E-8DD0-59314CE374CE}" EventSourceName="Perflib" />

        <EventID Qualifiers="49152">1008</EventID>

        <Version>0</Version>

        <Level>2</Level>

        <Task>0</Task>

        <Opcode>0</Opcode>

        <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

        <TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-01-18T06:32:39.023583000Z" />

        <EventRecordID>92546</EventRecordID>

        <Correlation />

        <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />

        <Channel>Application</Channel>

        <Computer>Owner-PC</Computer>

        <Security />

      </System>

      <UserData>

        <EventXML xmlns="Perflib">

          <param1>BITS</param1>

          <param2>C:\Windows\System32\bitsperf.dll</param2>

          <binaryDataSize>8</binaryDataSize>

          <binaryData>0200000000000000</binaryData>

        </EventXML>

      </UserData>

    </Event>

    a third red error below:

    Log Name:      Application

    Source:        Windows Backup

    Date:          1/17/2016 3:00:01 AM

    Event ID:      4103

    Task Category: None

    Level:         Error

    Keywords:      Classic

    User:          N/A

    Computer:      Owner-PC

    Description:

    The backup did not complete because of an error writing to the backup location E:. The error is: The backup location cannot be found or is not valid. Review your backup settings and check the backup location. (0x81000006).

    Event Xml:

    <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

      <System>

        <Provider Name="Windows Backup" />

        <EventID Qualifiers="0">4103</EventID>

        <Level>2</Level>

        <Task>0</Task>

        <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

        <TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-01-17T09:00:01.923285400Z" />

        <EventRecordID>92493</EventRecordID>

        <Channel>Application</Channel>

        <Computer>Owner-PC</Computer>

        <Security />

      </System>

      <EventData>

        <Data>E:&lt;/Data>

        <Data>The backup location cannot be found or is not valid. Review your backup settings and check the backup location. (0x81000006)</Data>

        <Binary>060000819E0500007B0800009D080000420ED1665C2BEE174B64529CB14610EA71000000</Binary>

      </EventData>

    </Event>

    A fourth red-colored error below:

    Log Name:      Application

    Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Perflib

    Date:          1/16/2016 5:38:00 PM

    Event ID:      1008

    Task Category: None

    Level:         Error

    Keywords:      Classic

    User:          N/A

    Computer:      Owner-PC

    Description:

    The Open Procedure for service "BITS" in DLL "C:\Windows\System32\bitsperf.dll" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error code.

    Event Xml:

    <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

      <System>

        <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Perflib" Guid="{13B197BD-7CEE-4B4E-8DD0-59314CE374CE}" EventSourceName="Perflib" />

        <EventID Qualifiers="49152">1008</EventID>

        <Version>0</Version>

        <Level>2</Level>

        <Task>0</Task>

        <Opcode>0</Opcode>

        <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

        <TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-01-16T23:38:00.341500400Z" />

        <EventRecordID>92486</EventRecordID>

        <Correlation />

        <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />

        <Channel>Application</Channel>

        <Computer>Owner-PC</Computer>

        <Security />

      </System>

      <UserData>

        <EventXML xmlns="Perflib">

          <param1>BITS</param1>

          <param2>C:\Windows\System32\bitsperf.dll</param2>

          <binaryDataSize>8</binaryDataSize>

          <binaryData>0200000000000000</binaryData>

        </EventXML>

      </UserData>

    </Event>

    There is more but I will stop here. I appreciated your help and guidance on this matter.

    Thank you,

    Dana Andrew

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-01T18:14:54+00:00

    My computer red marks in the event view says these following.

    Actvation of app Microsoft.WindowsPhone_8wekyb3d8bbwe!CompanionApp.App failed with error. The specifies module could not be found. see  te Microsoft-windows- TWinUI"slash Operational log for additional information.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-01T12:51:16+00:00

    Log Name:      Application

    Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Immersive-Shell

    Date:          12/1/2015 5:31:49 PM

    Event ID:      5973

    Task Category: (5973)

    Level:         Error

    Keywords:      

    User:          ABDUL-JABBAR\Abdul Jabbar

    Computer:      Abdul-Jabbar

    Description:

    Activation of app Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy!CortanaUI failed with error: The app didn't start. See the Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational log for additional information.

    Event Xml:

    <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

      <System>

        <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Immersive-Shell" Guid="{315A8872-923E-4EA2-9889-33CD4754BF64}" />

        <EventID>5973</EventID>

        <Version>0</Version>

        <Level>2</Level>

        <Task>5973</Task>

        <Opcode>0</Opcode>

        <Keywords>0x2000000000000000</Keywords>

        <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-12-01T12:31:49.750800000Z" />

        <EventRecordID>26441</EventRecordID>

        <Correlation />

        <Execution ProcessID="6456" ThreadID="3208" />

        <Channel>Application</Channel>

        <Computer>Abdul-Jabbar</Computer>

        <Security UserID="S-1-5-21-1102665370-250802215-941097201-1001" />

      </System>

      <EventData>

        <Data Name="AppId">Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy!CortanaUI</Data>

        <Data Name="ErrorCode">-2144927141</Data>

      </EventData>

    </Event>

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-11-19T18:24:57+00:00

    Windows 8.1 here:

    Windows successfully diagnosed a low virtual memory condition. The following programs consumed the most virtual memory: svchost.exe (1032) consumed 748326912 bytes, firefox.exe (5688) consumed 592867328 bytes, and MsMpEng.exe (2188) consumed<br> 329408512 bytes.
    svchost.exe 748326912
    firefox.exe 592867328
    MsMpEng.exe 329408512
    Total Usage 1670602752
    Usage % 10%
    System Memory 17179869184
    Paging file size 200 MB

    Any idea why?

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