"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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2015-04-20T16:11:23+00:00

Log Name: Application

Source: Application Error

Date: 4/20/2015 2:44:21 PM

Event ID: 1000

Task Category: (100)

Level: Error

Keywords: Classic

User: N/A

Computer: WMA

Description:

Faulting application name: chrome.exe, version: 42.0.2311.90, time stamp: 0x552c2225

Faulting module name: chrome.dll, version: 42.0.2311.90, time stamp: 0x552c1dea

Exception code: 0x80000003

Fault offset: 0x0053ae0f

Faulting process id: 0x1160

Faulting application start time: 0x01d0798bff13ebcd

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\42.0.2311.90\chrome.dll

Report Id: 957d1523-e752-11e4-8cc0-4c72b941f2a1

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

<System>

<Provider Name="Application Error" />

<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>

<Level>2</Level>

<Task>100</Task>

<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

<TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-04-20T11:44:21.000000000Z" />

<EventRecordID>29941</EventRecordID>

<Channel>Application</Channel>

<Computer>WMA</Computer>

<Security />

</System>

<EventData>

<Data>chrome.exe</Data>

<Data>42.0.2311.90</Data>

<Data>552c2225</Data>

<Data>chrome.dll</Data>

<Data>42.0.2311.90</Data>

<Data>552c1dea</Data>

<Data>80000003</Data>

<Data>0053ae0f</Data>

<Data>1160</Data>

<Data>01d0798bff13ebcd</Data>

<Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe</Data>

<Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\42.0.2311.90\chrome.dll</Data>

<Data>957d1523-e752-11e4-8cc0-4c72b941f2a1</Data>

</EventData>

</Event>
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Anonymous

2015-04-20T18:55:03+00:00

I used to get the low memory message constantly. I know this doesn't help with windows 8, but I am trying out the windows 10 technical preview, and so far I have not had the error message come up. So, if nothing else, at least the newer OS doesn't seem to have the same problem.
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2015-05-30T02:39:50+00:00

Log Name:      System

Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Resource-Exhaustion-Detector

Date:          2015-05-28 4:42:46 PM

Event ID:      2004

Task Category: Resource Exhaustion Diagnosis Events

Level:         Warning

Keywords:      Events related to exhaustion of system commit limit (virtual memory).

User:          SYSTEM

Computer:      reena

Description:

Windows successfully diagnosed a low virtual memory condition. The following programs consumed the most virtual memory: iexplore.exe (7124) consumed 308281344 bytes, MsMpEng.exe (1380) consumed 136966144 bytes, and iexplore.exe (4032) consumed 129789952 bytes.

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

<System>

    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Resource-Exhaustion-Detector" Guid="{9988748E-C2E8-4054-85F6-0C3E1CAD2470}" />

    <EventID>2004</EventID>

    <Version>0</Version>

    <Level>3</Level>

    <Task>3</Task>

    <Opcode>33</Opcode>

    <Keywords>0x8000000020000000</Keywords>

    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-05-28T22:42:46.595116500Z" />

    <EventRecordID>26642</EventRecordID>

    <Correlation ActivityID="{514B5B85-625D-46B5-BDF4-89411D4653E0}" />

    <Execution ProcessID="460" ThreadID="1148" />

    <Channel>System</Channel>

    <Computer>reena</Computer>

    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />

</System>

<UserData>

    <MemoryExhaustionInfo xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Resource/Exhaustion/Detector/Events">

      <SystemInfo>

        <SystemCommitLimit>16450347008</SystemCommitLimit>

        <SystemCommitCharge>16186249216</SystemCommitCharge>

        <ProcessCommitCharge>1594052608</ProcessCommitCharge>

        <PagedPoolUsage>299487232</PagedPoolUsage>

        <PhysicalMemorySize>4102316032</PhysicalMemorySize>

        <PhysicalMemoryUsage>3416014848</PhysicalMemoryUsage>

        <NonPagedPoolUsage>151924736</NonPagedPoolUsage>

        <Processes>96</Processes>

      </SystemInfo>

      <ProcessInfo>

        <Process_1>

          <Name>iexplore.exe</Name>

          <ID>7124</ID>

          <CreationTime>2015-05-28T22:07:17.805193100Z</CreationTime>

          <CommitCharge>308281344</CommitCharge>

          <HandleCount>2194</HandleCount>

          <Version>11.0.9600.17416</Version>

          <TypeInfo>201</TypeInfo>

        </Process_1>

        <Process_2>

          <Name>MsMpEng.exe</Name>

          <ID>1380</ID>

          <CreationTime>2015-05-14T00:42:57.275856200Z</CreationTime>

          <CommitCharge>136966144</CommitCharge>

          <HandleCount>587</HandleCount>

          <Version>0.0.0.0</Version>

          <TypeInfo>66</TypeInfo>

        </Process_2>

        <Process_3>

          <Name>iexplore.exe</Name>

          <ID>4032</ID>

          <CreationTime>2015-05-28T22:24:06.404413600Z</CreationTime>

          <CommitCharge>129789952</CommitCharge>

          <HandleCount>823</HandleCount>

          <Version>11.0.9600.17416</Version>

          <TypeInfo>211</TypeInfo>

        </Process_3>

        <Process_4>

          <Name>Skype.exe</Name>

          <ID>7976</ID>

          <CreationTime>2015-05-28T22:06:35.121022300Z</CreationTime>

          <CommitCharge>112226304</CommitCharge>

          <HandleCount>1488</HandleCount>

          <Version>7.4.0.102</Version>

          <TypeInfo>152</TypeInfo>

        </Process_4>

        <Process_5>

          <Name>

          </Name>

          <ID>0</ID>

          <CreationTime>1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</CreationTime>

          <CommitCharge>0</CommitCharge>

          <HandleCount>0</HandleCount>

          <Version>0.0.0.0</Version>

          <TypeInfo>0</TypeInfo>

        </Process_5>

        <Process_6>

          <Name>

          </Name>

          <ID>0</ID>

          <CreationTime>1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</CreationTime>

          <CommitCharge>0</CommitCharge>

          <HandleCount>0</HandleCount>

          <Version>0.0.0.0</Version>

          <TypeInfo>0</TypeInfo>

        </Process_6>

      </ProcessInfo>

      <PagedPoolInfo>

        <Tag_1>

          <Name>CM31</Name>

          <PoolUsed>96530432</PoolUsed>

        </Tag_1>

        <Tag_2>

          <Name>MmSt</Name>

          <PoolUsed>47578720</PoolUsed>

        </Tag_2>

        <Tag_3>

          <Name>CM16</Name>

          <PoolUsed>17780736</PoolUsed>

        </Tag_3>

      </PagedPoolInfo>

      <NonPagedPoolInfo>

        <Tag_1>

          <Name>wcdl</Name>

          <PoolUsed>32078320</PoolUsed>

        </Tag_1>

        <Tag_2>

          <Name>MmCa</Name>

          <PoolUsed>25320624</PoolUsed>

        </Tag_2>

        <Tag_3>

          <Name>Pool</Name>

          <PoolUsed>6501952</PoolUsed>

        </Tag_3>

      </NonPagedPoolInfo>

      <ExhaustionEventInfo>

        <Time>2015-05-28T22:44:16.910395200Z</Time>

      </ExhaustionEventInfo>

    </MemoryExhaustionInfo>

</UserData>

</Event>
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2015-05-30T02:42:41+00:00

Log Name:      System

Source:        Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM

Date:          2015-05-28 3:43:52 PM

Event ID:      10010

Task Category: None

Level:         Error

Keywords:      Classic

User:          REENA\amarjit

Computer:      reena

Description:

The server {FE9617F6-E606-42AA-BECC-0E9CDA246D63} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

<System>

    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM" Guid="{1B562E86-B7AA-4131-BADC-B6F3A001407E}" EventSourceName="DCOM" />

    <EventID Qualifiers="0">10010</EventID>

    <Version>0</Version>

    <Level>2</Level>

    <Task>0</Task>

    <Opcode>0</Opcode>

    <Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>

    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-05-28T21:43:52.662728700Z" />

    <EventRecordID>26626</EventRecordID>

    <Correlation />

    <Execution ProcessID="780" ThreadID="640" />

    <Channel>System</Channel>

    <Computer>reena</Computer>

    <Security UserID="S-1-5-21-3640341496-3745108091-2867312112-1001" />

</System>

<EventData>

    <Data Name="param1">{FE9617F6-E606-42AA-BECC-0E9CDA246D63}</Data>

</EventData>

</Event>
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