Friend is having memory issues.

[BuckeyeFPS]

So, my friend recently built his own rig and had iBuyPower put it together for him because he didnt feel comfortable doing it himself which is understandable. But he's having an issue with his memory being that when he plays GTA V, he gets this message, http://gyazo.com/b5945b42d3f079cc6940a2a705727fa0.
He says it doesnt happen with any of his other games, i.e. League of Legends, City Skylines, Counter Strike GO.

Also, the RAM he has is G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900)

 

[i7Baby]

How much ram does he have available - per Task Manager?

Sometimes people inadvertently make ram disks or have too much pagefile space.

 

[zechstiver]

Getting the message could me that you do not have required amount of ram but GTA V only needs 4GB so that's not the problem. Since you did say that you built it yourself you could of installed the ram wrong and or the ram could be faulty. Maybe try taking the ram out and re installing it in the system could help. Hope this helps

 

[BuckeyeFPS]

Getting the message could me that you do not have required amount of ram but GTA V only needs 4GB so that's not the problem. Since you did say that you built it yourself you could of installed the ram wrong and or the ram could be faulty. Maybe try taking the ram out and re installing it in the system could help. Hope this helps

Sorry if I wasnt clear, my friend bought the parts and had iBuyPower but it together for him, as for the ram being set wrong and/or faulty, he isnt comfortable opening the case and resetting it

 

[i7Baby]

Maybe he should talk to iBuyPower about them checking it out. I gather it's still on warranty.

 

[BuckeyeFPS]

How much ram does he have available - per Task Manager?

Sometimes people inadvertently make ram disks or have too much pagefile space.

According to task manager he has 35% ram available when only having open:
Steam
Spotify
League of Legends
GTA V Launcher
Google Chrome
Skype

 

[i7Baby]

So about 50% is allocated then. Any idea to what? Might help to look into Resource Monitor too.

 

[BuckeyeFPS]

So about 50% is allocated then. Any idea to what? Might help to look into Resource Monitor too.

Woops, I just noticed that I worded his usage wrong, he had 35% being used, not available, he closed the League of Legends client and the GTA client and is down to 27% being used, with the top 3 users being Spotify, Skype, and Chrome

 

[i7Baby]

How much is available?

 

[BuckeyeFPS]

How much is available?

27% being used would make it around 60% available wouldnt it? With the leftover 13% or so being reserves for system processes.

 

[BuckeyeFPS]

bump

 

[i7Baby]

So if you have 60% - 4.5gb available then you shouldn't be running out of memory.

Wheres the other 40% gone though?

 

[BuckeyeFPS]

27% was being used by skype, spotify, and google chrome, and I assume the rest is all windows background processes and such

 

[i7Baby]

If you disable the main memory consuming processes, can you run GTAV OK?

 

[BuckeyeFPS]

from what hes telling me, it only happens when he tabs out of game? weird right? anyway he just told me that he was able to run GTA V for 2 and a half hours and all that happened was a "program has stopped working" type deal.

 

[i7Baby]

I'd run a Virus Scan and do a Diskcheck.