Thanks Adriaan - I have changed the registry setting and rebooting seems to help.
"Your computer is low on memory" when its clearly not
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'"
Screenshot Here
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
2014-11-16T00:44:19+00:00 I hate to break it to you guys, but I am having the same issue with Windows 7, without any games being run (Steam is installed but I rarely play any games whatsoever and it doesn't even auto sign in on boot; the only one I have installed currently I think is Rise of Nations and I haven't played in months.) I do have an Nvidia video card with the latest driver and the issue of the memory warnings started about a month or two ago after a couple of closely released video card updates. However, I really suspect this is an Adobe Creative Cloud issue. Specifically for me, Fireworks CS5 seems to be the offender, however I've been unable to confirm this. How many of you are running an Adobe CC or CS5 product? Or maybe even Acrobat?
I have an Intel I7 that has run Windows 7 Ultimate x64, with 8 GB of RAM, for about three years now without issues, that on bootup shows about 2.3 GB RAM being used and after opening a few programs shows about 3GB being used, but once Fireworks or Dreamweaver or other Adobe CC programs open (usually Fireworks) and have manipulated an image or two, the memory usage goes to nearly 7GB!!!! No complex images are necessary to produce this behavior.
Also of note, this could have also started happening after a couple of Microsoft updates for the o/s. It's annoying to say the least when you are developing a website or app and have a lot of different pages open that have different logins, to go and reboot this absurdly powerful machine that should have no problem opening a 10MB file in Fireworks.
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Anonymous
2014-12-04T07:11:23+00:00 Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-WMI
Date: 12/3/2014 7:29:42 PM
Event ID: 10
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: User-PC
Description:
Event filter with query "SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 WHERE TargetInstance ISA "Win32_Processor" AND TargetInstance.LoadPercentage > 99" could not be reactivated in namespace "//./root/CIMV2" because of error 0x80041003. Events cannot be delivered through this filter until the problem is corrected.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-WMI" Guid="{1edeee53-0afe-4609-b846-d8c0b2075b1f}" EventSourceName="WinMgmt" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">10</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-12-03T15:29:42.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>112857</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>User-PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>//./root/CIMV2</Data>
<Data>SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 WHERE TargetInstance ISA "Win32_Processor" AND TargetInstance.LoadPercentage > 99</Data>
<Data>0x80041003</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
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Anonymous
2015-01-08T09:46:19+00:00 I have the same problem with a similar rig to JoeMacDonalddddd. That is, an Intel NUC. Latest Haswell chip. 16GB RAM. Windows 8.1 Pro with Windows Media Centre. Again, as posted by JoeMacDonalddddd it is a minor irritation, but needs to be fixed.
My NUC is totally over engineered, so I do not know why this error pops up all the time. I only use it as a Media Centre!!!
No games. Check the odd email. Very little web surfing. It's clean and new!!
I've contacted Microsoft and Intel - They do not know what's wrong:
Microsoft have remotely logged into my PC numerous times and run various scans, checked for malware / viruses, checked drivers, and all is clean and up to date.
Intel do not know either. Latest BIOS / drivers are up to date.
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Anonymous
2015-01-31T01:29:24+00:00 I have the same problem - it has nothing to do with games.
I have used Microsoft operating systems for (literally) 30 years. Windows 8.1 is an abortion.
Intel i7-4770 CPU at 3.40HZ
12 GB RAM