"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
    2014-04-03T19:41:24+00:00

    Just jumping in to say that I am also having this issue. I play NO games and have barely any programs installed on this computer. I basically only use it to browse, use word, and chat. Rather than a game supposedly causing the memory loss, it usually says that I need to close Skype.

    I've run memory diagnostic multiple times and it has never found any problems or offered any results.

    If someone's found a fix for this, please let me know.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-03-26T22:59:11+00:00

    I did as instructed with trouble shoot thing, ironically...

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-03-19T11:36:24+00:00

    i got the same problem and using a Surface pro 1 with win 8.1 and size of all items are set to 150%. 

    Always got the error when playing games in full screen, or using most of the modern apps for 15+ minutes.

    The work around I got is it play game in window mode if possible , not full screen mode. 

    still waiting for a fix for this problem.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-03-14T14:47:20+00:00

    So I am a desktop user and am used those BIOSes.  Isnt there a way in the laptop to completely disable the HD 4000 and simply use the NVIDIA/AMD graphics?  I know in the desktop graphics I can.

    Has anyone actually tried this to see if the Nvidia graphics works correctly?

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