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

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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

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

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Anonymous

2017-09-20T09:21:52+00:00

I have found a solution GO TO THIS LINK AND TRY 1st METHOD. HOPE THIS WILL HELP!

http://troubleshooter.xyz/wiki/fix-your-computer-is-low-on-memory-warning/
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Anonymous

2017-09-09T00:32:28+00:00

I have a Pro surface 4 with Windows 10 and it is giving me pop ups that my memory is low. Also, computer just shuts down like it is overheating when I am using it. I do not have that much saved so strange.
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Anonymous

2017-08-18T10:23:14+00:00

in the past few days i have had pop-up say low on memory etc. when it happened first time i did as computer said to that is go through programme and clean things up and i am still getting i went windows 8.1 straight to windows 10 on upgrades for free when they first came out and this is the first time i have had problems like this hoping i can get some answers Chris Read
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Anonymous

2017-08-13T17:33:37+00:00

I've found the source of this error: It's the windows Standby Memory. Effectively, windows loads other programs you're not using right now into your RAM so that it can crash your game by making it run out of RAM. Standby memory is NOT FREED when a game commits RAM, only if the game actually writes to RAM, which it wouldn't do, if the commit fails... and crashes with an "out of memory" error.
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