PC keeps acting as if I'm running out of memory when launching memory intensive programs
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hey, I've had this issue for a loong while but recently it seems to have gotten worse. first time I can remember this occurring was after I got my new SSD when playing Titanfall some time in May I believe last year. for some reason, even when there's lots of memory to spare, Windows will act as if I've run out and kill programs. usually it only kills the offending program which is usually the program I want to use, but sometimes it'll go bonkers and turn the screen black with my cursor flickering. it'll eventually return to normal, though with a few programs killed.
for example, I was trying to play some Insurgency, and as you can see by the chart thing, I never reach the top and I haven't told Windows to kill the program in the prompt. it just did it anyway
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I'm not able to play Insurgency at all by the looks of it. I also have this issue with Wolfenstein: The New Order, I haven't been able to play it successfully for any longer than a few minutes at the time before it silently crashes, which I assume is Windows killing it. same deal with Star Citizen, though it gives me a lot more errors and causes the system to go a little crazier. I also experience this with Battlefield 4, and to a lesser extent, Titanfall.
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I ran a single Memtest86 pass which returned no errors, and I assume that if the RAM was faulty, I'd get even worse symptoms than what I'm experiencing. the only consistent thing is that it seems to behave this way around the 5-6GB of used RAM mark, though I can't tell for sure.
my specs
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What about your pagefile? have you messed about with it?
This is a symptom of memory fragmentation, but I don't see how windows could screw that up.
[QUOTE=Kwaq;46835015]What about your pagefile? have you messed about with it?[/QUOTE]
I remember having an issue related to this where the pagefile was too small and everything went downhill, and from what I can tell, this is the issue this time as well. apparently Samsung Magician's maximum reliability makes the pagefile incredibly small, so I moved it away from the SSD to the HDD and made it big and now Windows seems content with it. thank you!
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