"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
    2014-01-14T01:36:09+00:00

    I'm getting this error and I am running no games whatsoever.  I returned after a couple of days to see that my laptop was rebooted automatically.  Windows 8 was asking if I wanted to run maintenance on it prior to this so I assumed there was an update of some sort.

    Now, when I reboot/restart my computer the low memory error pops up when I go to the desktop tile.  Other programs work but not Google Chrome.  It attempts to go to a website and when it appears to be displaying the webpage, Chrome displays the "Aw Snap" response.  And sometimes it just closes automatically.

    Something is up with the Windows 8 update.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-01-13T10:51:27+00:00

    I am having this issue. you guys can see a thread I started on World of Warcraft forums http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/9256956438 

    still an ongoing issue for me. I tried the workaround still getting errors.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-01-12T16:12:39+00:00

    I'm not using steam and have this problem

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-01-12T09:07:20+00:00

    One possible solution taken from the Steam forums - set your game(s) to run at the monitor's native resolution.

    Theory is that the problem is related to a change in how scaling is handled with the Win 8.1 update, particularly with the Steam engine.

    Hope this helps

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