Resource-Exhaustion (No Memory)

[FijiWiji]

I've recently run into an issue with my computer closing games out and stating that I have low memory available.
At first I was under the impression that this was just the game I was playing had not yet been refined and tuned.
Then the issue started on all games after about 1-2 hours of gameplay.
I get an error on the screen and the game closes stating that I do not have enough memory to continue this application.
I just got a whole new rig yesterday but transferred my SSD OS to it. Started a game and within 30 minutes of playing the game closes with the same error message.

Upon checking windows event log I found hundreds of events for "Resource-Exhaustion Detector" and it shows that my applications (games and other apps included) are using all of my 16gb of ram in no time.

Here is my current setup:
Windows 10 Pro 64b 10.0
Intel i7-4790K
Asus Maximus VII Formula MoBo
Corsair 16gb RAM
(2) GTX 980 sli
1000w PSU

I've got my DXDiag txt if you need me to upload that. Any help appreciatted!

 

[Colif]

how different was your old hardware to the new? Did you fresh install win 10 on the new PC? It normally helps as the drivers between old and new hardware aren't going to match.

Did you get the memory errors on last PC or just new one?

Did you change page file settings?

 

[FijiWiji]

The old is completely different. I've already done a clean Driver install on the new OS. (removed all old drivers prior to installing new)
I did receive the memory errors on the last which is leading me to believe its a windows issue.

To be honest, I have tried many things and I do recall coming across a thread saying to change my page file settings. I cannot recall what I changed them to/from. DXDiag is currently showing:

Memory: 16384MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 14806MB RAM
Page File: 4974MB used, 12830MB available

 

[Grugbug]

Run one game after a reboot to see if it happens. If you run a game that has a memory leak, the leak will continue after closing the game and have an impact on all operations. You need to find the one that is causing the leak and go from there.

 

[Colif]

right click this PC on desktop
choose properties
choose Advanced system settings
under performance, click on settings
click advanced tab and under virtual memory, click change..
tick box next to Automatically manage paging file for all drives (if it is already ticked, leave it as is) and choose okay to close all the menus - may need a restart.

If you already had a normal page file, and I assume you have upgraded all the drivers from motherboard makers web site, try this

Download Process explorer and run it as admin (it comes from Microsoft so its safe)

the default view is tree structure meaning like your task manager screen, it will show what processes are underservice, but unlike task manager, it shows the ram usage of each part so you can see what is eating your ram

Private bytes = actual ram usage
Working set = Ram + page file usage - this is likely where you see the usage since it uses all your resources up/

This page shows what all the colours and headings mean, link at bottom of it shows how to use it to find problems. You can right click headers and run an av scan from within the program.

I could guess its a memory leak, a driver not releasing the ram it asks for and in some cases wanting more and more until you have nothing left.

One last thing, can you right click start
choose run...
type winver and press enter
what version of Win 10 are you on?

 

[FijiWiji]

Grub,

Its on all of my games. Any game I play longer than an hour for I run into the issue.

Colif,

It would appear that I did not have the Auto mange page file enabled. What it looks like I did may be the cause. I have my OS on 1 drive and my games on another. I set the other drive to no page limit and the OS was set to 3-8gb. This may be the cause of my issue?

Previously I was able to open task manager prior to my game crashing. It would clearly indicate that my games was consuming all of my RAM and VRAM. Would you still advise downloading the Process explorer to further investigate?

I am running Windows 10 Pro 1607 Build 14393. 1066

 

[Colif]

I am not sure about page file on hdd, lets see if changing it back to auto makes any difference. Might not run out as fast. win 10 only uses page file if it has to so only when you playing games will it swap stuff in ram out to hard drive, so limiting it then is the worst time really.

You version is only 1 build behind, about average. You could go here and click 1st button, that will download upgrade assistant and once run install latest build - it only came out 3 weeks ago.

 

[FijiWiji]

Thank you again Colif. I will wait a few days just to verify that this fix has worked before picking your answer as a solution!