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

here is what I have observed about this error.

the root cause is something in 8.1 that is causing memory Commits to expand to fill the entire physical RAM.  In order to verify this do the following: download Process Explorer from Sysinternals.  Run it. Under the View tab select System Information. Select the Memory Tab.  This will give you a running graph of both Physical memory usage and System Commits.

The problem happens when you run a program in Full Screen mode.  For me its Windows Media Center.

So run your full screen program.  After a minute or so Alt-Tab back to the desktop.  Look at the System Commit graph.  If the problem is occurring then you will see a saw tooth like graph for system commits.  While the full screen program is up the System Commits grow and grow.  As soon as you alt-tab out the system commits drop back to the level of the amount of physical memory in use.

Ways I have seen around the issue:

1. Run your program in a window (the size of your full screen).  This supposedly helps XBMC users and I would suspect other users as well.  I have not tried it.
2. Set your desktop to the same resolution as the game you play before you launch the game in full screen mode.  This seems to help those people running WMC, but it all goes to heck when you turn off the TV.

Disabling the popup dialog does nothing to fix the issue of the system commits growing while the full screen game is up.  Even though the dialog is gone, all your physical RAM is full of system commits.

If you are playing a full screen game I would suspect you could alt-tab out every so often to clear out the system commits.

Bottom line is Microsoft has an issue and I have seen no patch to resolve it.

I am ho on this issue because it reduces my WAF (wife acceptance factor) of using WMC instead of a cable box.  I will report any fix that I see.

Yup I am betting all of you get this message

SMH windows 8.1 Didn't buy a $1000 laptop just to keep getting this on a GT 750M / 16gb ram system

So I tested the latest released 3412 driver from Intel.  The result is that it is still leaking memory when using full screen games (or whatever) that have a different refresh rate/resolution than the desktop.

To reiterate:  If you use 3rd generation graphics, install driver 2875, 2884 or 3107.  These do not have the memory leak under 8.1

Hi,

Just adding another "me too". I can verify the low memory problem even though I'm only using 3/8 of my RAM. This happens on multiple steam games in full screen, however ironically, it allows me to switch back to the game afterwards with no noticeable problems. As long as i don't close the window, all games seem to run slightly slower, but the notice cannot pop up anymore until it's cleared the first time. Still waiting for an actual fix!

I too am having this same issue. Games crash when in full screen ever since I updated to 8.1. Works fine if in windowed mode, but that is a serious drag. Would appreciate if Microsoft would work on this issue, it seems people have been having problems with it for months now.