Low memory error in Battlefield 4

[mmaatt747]

After the latest BF4 patch I can no longer have the Battlelog map open on my 2nd monitor. If I do, the game crashes with a low memory error.

It appears to only happen on large 64-player maps. After joining a server the level loading screen appears as normal and just as the map comes up to select a spawnpoint, the game crashes to desktop and I get the following error: "Close programs to prevent information loss. Your computer is low on memory. Save your files and close these programs: Battlefield 4. Windows will only close enough programs to restore needed memory." This message is in a Microsoft Windows window.

If I don't keep the map open on my 2nd screen, I don't get the error. And I used to be able to do this just fine before the current patch.

I've had task manager open on the 2nd screen as well to see if it really is using all of my memory when the game loads, but it is not. There is a small spike when it loads (as would be expected) but it does not even go up to 50% of the available memory.

Also, I have run Memtest86 and my memory sticks pass.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Tradesman1]

Sounds like it's the 'patch', may be requiring more memory than you have (might try increasing the size of your page file)

 

[mmaatt747]

Sounds like it's the 'patch', may be requiring more memory than you have (might try increasing the size of your page file)

I did try this but it did not fix the issue. It was a good thought though and one that I did not think of even though I actually had my pagefile turned off entirely since I have 16 gigs of memory and really don't do a whole lot of multitasking (and did not want any excessive wear on my SSD's).

I have since discovered that if I wait until I'm in the game before Alt Tab'ing out to load the map on my 2nd screen, then I don't have the low memory error... definitely weird!

Thanks for answering

 

[Tradesman1]

Might be it's loading and keeping that and not releasing it, basically using double, then actually loading after you start it's just running without any 'frozen'

 

[mmaatt747]

Might be it's loading and keeping that and not releasing it, basically using double, then actually loading after you start it's just running without any 'frozen'

It turns out that it has something to do with the web browser I was launching the game from. My default browser is Chrome and when I tried it with IE I had no problems whatsoever. I think I'm going to uninstall Chrome and re-install it.

Thanks again for the responses.