"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
    2017-03-08T18:32:56+00:00

    I found two {2) RED Events and most of them are YELLOW and read:

    {1}  YELLOW

    Log Name:      Application

    Source:        ESENT

    Date:          3/7/2017 5:55:11 PM

    Event ID:      472

    Task Category: Logging/Recovery

    Level:         Warning

    Keywords:      Classic

    User:          N/A

    Computer:      Laptop-Acer

    Description:

    LiveComm (9308) C:\Users\Diana\AppData\Local\Packages\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\LiveComm\72c3a0fc3cca6a90\120712-0049: The shadow header page of file C:\Users\Diana\AppData\Local\Packages\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\LiveComm\72c3a0fc3cca6a90\120712-0049\DBStore\edb.chk was damaged. The primary header page (4096 bytes) was used instead.

    Event Xml:

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

      <System>

        <Provider Name="ESENT" />

        <EventID Qualifiers="0">472</EventID>

        <Level>3</Level>

        <Task>3</Task>

        <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

        <TimeCreated SystemTime="2017-03-07T23:55:11.000000000Z" />

        <EventRecordID>16546</EventRecordID>

        <Channel>Application</Channel>

        <Computer>Laptop-Acer</Computer>

        <Security />

      </System>

      <EventData>

        <Data>LiveComm</Data>

        <Data>9308</Data>

        <Data>C:\Users\Diana\AppData\Local\Packages\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\LiveComm\72c3a0fc3cca6a90\120712-0049: </Data>

        <Data>C:\Users\Diana\AppData\Local\Packages\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\LiveComm\72c3a0fc3cca6a90\120712-0049\DBStore\edb.chk</Data>

        <Data>4096</Data>

      </EventData>

    </Event>

    {1}  RED

    Log Name:      Application

    Source:        Application Hang

    Date:          3/1/2017 12:46:22 PM

    Event ID:      1002

    Task Category: (101)

    Level:         Error

    Keywords:      Classic

    User:          N/A

    Computer:      Laptop-Acer

    Description:

    The program LiveComm.exe version 17.5.9600.20911 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.

     Process ID: a10

     Start Time: 01d29293626a0a4c

     Termination Time: 4294967295

     Application Path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_17.5.9600.20911_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\LiveComm.exe

     Report Id: 574f74b2-feaf-11e6-be85-3065ec0db34e

     Faulting package full name: microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_17.5.9600.20911_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

     Faulting package-relative application ID: ppleae38af2e007f4358a809ac99a64a67c1

    {2}

    Log Name:      Application

    Source:        Microsoft-Windows-CEIP

    Date:          2/27/2017 2:44:04 PM

    Event ID:      1008

    Task Category: None

    Level:         Error

    Keywords:      Classic

    User:          N/A

    Computer:      Laptop-Acer

    Description:

    A problem prevented Customer Experience Improvement Program data from being sent to Microsoft, (Error 80070005).

    Event Xml:

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

      <System>

        <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-CEIP" Guid="{A402FE09-DA6E-45F2-82AF-3CB37170EE0C}" EventSourceName="Customer Experience Improvement Program" />

        <EventID Qualifiers="49152">1008</EventID>

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-04-03T01:03:01+00:00

    I have 370GB left and it will not stop this is its 2 day I have a windows 10 and I have done everything I know how to stop it but it will not stop please help

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-06-01T16:07:47+00:00

    Hi, what if I don't have the Pro version so I didn't get the gpedit.msc with my version of windows 10, what can I do to solve this problem?

    thank you

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-07-22T00:44:52+00:00

    i have this problem except i don 't play any game and i didn 't do any thing new recently!

    i just watch movies and use google chrome for surfing the internet. by the way, i have win10

    another thing is that i realized my antivirus doesn 't work kinda! :|

    this is so weird 

    anybody has any idea how can i fix this?

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