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Computer memory issues

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I hope I am in the right forum. I have been getting the mesage below for the past week, which is puzzling.

Your computer has run out of available memory. Please restart flight simulator and select different graphics, senery or traffic settings.

I have not had this problem before as everything ran very smoothly prior to last week. My sim is FSX, my OS is Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, my card is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, 8192MB RAM, 4095 MB approx total memory. Again, I had no prior issues. Any assistance in troubleshooting will be greatly appreciated.

One thought, when did you last reboot your machine.  Sometimes memory get corrupted and needs to be restarted.  Also, have you installed something recently that may be running in background?  You also might ensure that nothing unnecessary is running in background and you might also stop some of the background services. 

 

Jim Driskell

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James M Driskell, Maj USMC (Ret)

 

 

Do a search on the forums for FSX VAS and OOM issues this down to the 32bit limit of FSX if you put to much load detail on the sim it can crash with Out Of Memory issue 

 

Raymond Fry.

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Please review the specs you posted. Did you mean GB instead of MB?

Bob

i5, 16 GB ram, GTX 960, FS on SSD, Windows 10 64 bit, home built works anyway.

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46 minutes ago, jmdriskell said:

One thought, when did you last reboot your machine.  Sometimes memory get corrupted and needs to be restarted.  Also, have you installed something recently that may be running in background?  You also might ensure that nothing unnecessary is running in background and you might also stop some of the background services. 

 

Jim Driskell

I've turned the machine off and restarted it, but I still get the same issue after running FSX for a while.

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Thank you all for the helpful suggestions. I will continue to troubleshoot...

 

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27 minutes ago, bobbyjack said:

Please review the specs you posted. Did you mean GB instead of MB?

My system is old  😜

21 hours ago, Blue Baron said:

my OS is Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, my card is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, 8192MB RAM, 4095 MB approx total memory

That would be 8 GB video RAM and 4 GB system RAM.  You have a 64-bit operating system and that is preferred, but with only 4 GB of system RAM you are running out of system RAM.  It could be a program that you recently installed is loading during startup and using more system RAM or perhaps you added something to FSX and it is using up more system RAM.  Since you have a 64-bit operating system, you might look into new RAM, going to 8 GB.  Odds are that your operating system and background programs and processes are not going to use more than 2 GB, 3 at the very most, and FSX would be able to use its full maximum of 4 GB.

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My computer: ABS Gladiator Gaming PC featuring an Intel 10700F CPU, EVGA CLC-240 AIO cooler (dead fans replaced with Noctua fans), Asus Tuf Gaming B460M Plus motherboard, 16GB DDR4-3000 RAM, 1 TB NVMe SSD, EVGA RTX3070 FTW3 video card, dead EVGA 750 watt power supply replaced with Antec 900 watt PSU.

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On 3/28/2020 at 10:19 AM, stans said:

That would be 8 GB video RAM and 4 GB system RAM.  You have a 64-bit operating system and that is preferred, but with only 4 GB of system RAM you are running out of system RAM.  It could be a program that you recently installed is loading during startup and using more system RAM or perhaps you added something to FSX and it is using up more system RAM.  Since you have a 64-bit operating system, you might look into new RAM, going to 8 GB.  Odds are that your operating system and background programs and processes are not going to use more than 2 GB, 3 at the very most, and FSX would be able to use its full maximum of 4 GB.

Thank you Stans.

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