"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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2016-05-10T15:28:13+00:00

Log Name:      Application

Source:        Application Error

Date:          10-05-2016 20:37:05

Event ID:      1000

Task Category: (100)

Level:         Error

Keywords:      Classic

User:          N/A

Computer:      saraswathidixit

Description:

Faulting application name: backgroundTaskHost.exe, version: 10.0.10586.0, time stamp: 0x5632d8f0

Faulting module name: Cortana.BackgroundTask.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x56ff3588

Exception code: 0x80000003

Fault offset: 0x000000000009bb13

Faulting process id: 0x21bc

Faulting application start time: 0x01d1aacd9cf0c08f

Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\backgroundTaskHost.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy\Cortana.BackgroundTask.dll

Report Id: c32f9cb8-44d4-442f-87c5-e9ff87341868

Faulting package full name: Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_1.6.1.52_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy

Faulting package-relative application ID: CortanaUI

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="2016-05-10T15:07:05.659216300Z" />

    <EventRecordID>16806</EventRecordID>

    <Channel>Application</Channel>

    <Computer>saraswathidixit</Computer>

    <Security />

</System>

<EventData>

    <Data>backgroundTaskHost.exe</Data>

    <Data>10.0.10586.0</Data>

    <Data>5632d8f0</Data>

    <Data>Cortana.BackgroundTask.dll</Data>

    <Data>0.0.0.0</Data>

    <Data>56ff3588</Data>

    <Data>80000003</Data>

    <Data>000000000009bb13</Data>

    <Data>21bc</Data>

    <Data>01d1aacd9cf0c08f</Data>

    <Data>C:\WINDOWS\system32\backgroundTaskHost.exe</Data>

    <Data>C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy\Cortana.BackgroundTask.dll</Data>

    <Data>c32f9cb8-44d4-442f-87c5-e9ff87341868</Data>

    <Data>Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_1.6.1.52_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy</Data>

    <Data>CortanaUI</Data>

</EventData>

</Event>

This was the content of the error which I got sir. please help me
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Anonymous

2016-07-07T16:24:55+00:00

GENERAL : "SettingSyncHost (4772) An attempt to create the file "C:\Windows\system32\edbtmp.log" failed with system error 5 (0x00000005): "Access is denied. ". The create file operation will fail with error -1032 (0xfffffbf8)."

LOGGING/RECOVERY : "SettingSyncHost (4772) Unable to create a new logfile because the database cannot write to the log drive. The drive may be read-only, out of disk space, misconfigured, or corrupted. Error -1032."
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Anonymous

2016-07-13T08:58:02+00:00

Log Name:      Application

Source:        Bonjour Service

Date:          7/1/2016 1:32:16 AM

Event ID:      100

Task Category: None

Level:         Error

Keywords:      Classic

User:          N/A

Computer:      TURTLE

Description:

Task Scheduling Error: Continuously busy for more than a second

Event Xml:

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

<System>

    <Provider Name="Bonjour Service" />

    <EventID Qualifiers="0">100</EventID>

    <Level>2</Level>

    <Task>0</Task>

    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-07-01T05:32:16.101095400Z" />

    <EventRecordID>124113</EventRecordID>

    <Channel>Application</Channel>

    <Computer>TURTLE</Computer>

    <Security />

</System>

<EventData>

    <Data>Task Scheduling Error: Continuously busy for more than a second</Data>

</EventData>

</Event>
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Anonymous

2016-07-13T20:56:23+00:00

I had windows 7 ultimate and i didn't had any problem, but when i installed windows 10 i always have Your computer is low on memory. While i am playing League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, almost every game my computer leaves the game and I have error Your computer is low on memory. When i am using computer 3-4 hours without turning it off my resolution is 1024x768 and i cant get it back to 1366x768 which is my highest resolution. And now while i'm typing this my resolution is 1024x768. Can you please tell me what's wrong with my pc, and can i and how can i fix that error, i watched a lot of videos on youtube and every video is the same and i did that but didn't worked. Or if nothing i will buy a new pc...
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