"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

2014-04-04T13:41:45+00:00

@Erikahfb-

What resolution does your desktop utilize?

When you are using Skype do you have it in full screen mode?

Which HD graphics does your computer use?
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Anonymous

2014-04-08T16:26:05+00:00

Is there no fix for this yet?!! I'm having the exact same problem
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Anonymous

2014-04-09T12:48:23+00:00

Same here.

And supprisingly, I don't get the message when I play BF4 full screen.

But as soon as I have: Android Studio + Skype + Adobe Photoshop - I'm not only getting 'Low Memory' dialog, but sometimes apps may crash and be force closed by the system.

I have Lenovo Y510p with 8GB RAM and some top processor.

And looks like I will have to roll back to Windows 7...
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Anonymous

2014-04-10T02:20:42+00:00

Me too.

Intel NUC. Latest Haswell chip. 16GB RAM. Windows 8.1.

I think the NUC comes with HD Graphics 5000.

Seems if I go full-screen on anything that's not in Metro mode, this error will pop up in the background but it never actually jams anything up. Rather, after I close the app its there to confuse me.

As I mentioned, it never seems to happen to Metro apps.

Once or twice, it might have adjusted the resolution to something odd, but after going to Metro and coming back, the res was fine again.

Note, this rig is hooked to a TV so I have messed around with the fonts to increase the readability, making it hard to tell when the res changes.

Anyway, this is more of a minor irritation than a huge issue, although it'd be nice to see it fixed.
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