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BadLuckChuck

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So recently I have upgraded, or downgraded depending on your feelings, to windows 8.1. I never had any problems with my memory when I would play a game like borderlands at 720p with high settings. All of a sudden after updating, I get a warning that pulls me out of the game and tells me that my memory is low and I should close X program. I look at my task manager and I have over 4Gb's of RAM left.

I've tried increasing virtual memory, disabling certain high impact start-up programs and a fresh reboot of my system and playing the game.

My question is, is there a way to disable the warning, or at least increase the threshold from 50 to 90% ? Currently, I'm not looking to buy more RAM so that is not an option.

My Laptop is an ASUS N56 VJ
Processor: i7 3630QM 2.4 GHz
Ram: 8 GB
Graphics: Nvida Geforce GT 635m 2Gb
 
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johnbl

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8 gb should be plenty of physical RAM
assuming you have a 16GB pagefile on your system.
Most likely there is a bug.
I would make sure I have installed 8.1 and all of its updates, if I still had the problem, you have to determine what is using your memory ( a user program or a device driver)
start task manager (ctr + alt +del) then select task manager
select the second tab "performance"
select memory. at the bottom of the screen you will see numbers for memory:
here are what mine indicate:
in use: 2.3GB
Available 21.6GB
Committed 3.1 / 48.0GB
cached 11.1gb
paged pool 279 MB
non-paged pool 67.1 MB

In this machine I have extra memory from a old machine that died so I have 24GB physical RAM

you are looking for large numbers in your paged pool (pagefile)
or large number in non-paged pool

also, there are certain bugs that kind of screw up the pagefile from working correctly especially if you use a solid state drive. in either case you want to delete the pagefile reboot and create another. You can do this with control panel but the menu is hard to get to:
control panel->system and security->system
select advanced system settings, select the advanced tab, then the performances section settings button
then the performance options comes up, select advanced tab
look to the bottom and you se a virtual memory, slelect change.

now you are at the place you need to make the change. select the drive that has the pagefile you need to delete
select no paging file. then select ok, until you are out of the dialogs.
at this point you can reboot
when you boot back you might have to delete the pagefile.sys yourself I don't know if it actually deletes it for you.

then go back into control panel and re enable the virtural memory pagefile back on your drive if you want it. then reboot and see if your problem go away.





 
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Vojin

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It wokrs for windows 7 i tried it


Open the registry editor. (Click the Windows orb, type “regedit”, and hit enter.)

Browse to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WDI\DiagnosticModules\
Export the following folders. This is your backup in case something goes wrong.

{5EE64AFB-398D-4edb-AF71-3B830219ABF7}

{45DE1EA9-10BC-4f96-9B21-4B6B83DBF476}

{C0F51D84-11B9-4e74-B083-99F11BA2DB0A}
Take ownership of the each folder mentioned in step 3. (You can take ownership by right clicking the folder and then hitting permissions. Click the advanced button and change owner to your user. Click OK and then give full control to your user group. Hit OK again.)

Delete the folders from step 3.

Reboot and enjoy.
 
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