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Sometimes when opening a game such as dota 2, my computer will give an error message telling me that the system is low on memory, and will force-quit dota 2 for me. This is despite the fact that my task manager shows 9GB of free RAM available. Even when I do close some programs and successfully start dota, the task manager tells me that dota is using less than 1 GB of RAM. I'm finding it hard to believe that I'm truly running low on RAM. I've never seen my RAM usage go above 50%.
I'm running windows 10 Home, i7-4790 @3.60GHz, 16GB of RAM. Graphics is an Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 4GB dedicated memory
Main drive is a 256GB solid state drive - yes there is a paging file enabled. Secondary drive is a 1TB HDD.
Any ideas as to what's causing the disconnect between what the system thinks and what my task manager is showing?
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United Kingdom20145 Posts
Make sure that your VRAM usage is below ~3.2GB when it happens. The same errors pop up for VRAM, not just system memory
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Miswrote - my video card has 4GB of dedicated memory, but looks like you figured that out.
I'm currently unable to reproduce my issue - surprising given that it was occurring consistently earlier, but thanks for the input. I'll post back if it happens again. GPU-Z is reporting VRAM usage at just over 1.5GB at the moment with no crashing.
Thanks
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United Kingdom20145 Posts
It has 3.5GB of actually usable VRAM so some symptoms can happen if you're reaching ~90% full (~3226MB)
There's a recently settled class action lawsuit about part of the memory subsytem on the GPU being disabled and falsely advertised so you can claim $30 from that now (in the US)
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Yes I did see that about the 970. It just happened again. VRAM was at 2.5GB usage. I'm not really doing anything intensive, so not sure what's happening here.
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United Kingdom20145 Posts
I've heard of a few people having this issue w/ windows 10 in the last few days
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Hm, hopefully it gets fixed. Thank you for all the help.
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