Solved Windows constantly showing "Low Memory"

[clubmimo123]

I have had this computer for the longest time and been playing the same video game (Garry's Mod) for a long time. I have recieved no memory low notification or had the game crash in the process of it loading.

The problem is, my computer keeps on notifying me with "Low Memory" which is constantly minimizing my game and crashing it. I have never experience this problem. Can someone help please?

 

[AddRAM]

Start the game, Ctrl Alt Del to open task manager>performance>resource monitor>memory tab, and give us a snip.

Example:

 

[Brink]

Hello clubmimo,

Is you hard drive low on free space (below 25GB)? If so, it will remove the page file.

In addition, double check to make sure that you have your page file enabled, and set to be managed by the system.

Virtual Memory Paging File - Change

 

[clubmimo123]

Will check all of these things mentione. Will get back to you guys soon.

 

[LMiller7]

Low Memory warnings rarely mean a shortage of RAM. Such shortages rarely cause any problems other than poor performance. More likely it is due to reaching the commit limit because of a memory leak or a too small pagefile.

It could also mean a 32 bit process is reaching the limits of virtual address space availability. That is an application problem and there is little to nothing a user can do about it.

 

[clubmimo123]

Well this problem never happened before. This problem started yestarday out of no where.

Everything in the computer is very slow. When im accessing a website such as sevenforums.com, it takes 60 seconds for it to open while before this issue happened, it took just 12 seconds. Anyhow, here is the image requested by "AddRAM"

This is everything without my game (Garry's Mod) running. With it running, there is low memory and often crashes.

 

[Brink]

How's you page file looking?

 

[clubmimo123]

How's you page file looking?

Im not exactly sure what that is (precisely). However if you want me to take more screenshots, i can do that for you to check out how my system is.

 

[Brink]

Sure that would be great.

Virtual Memory Paging File - Change

 

[clubmimo123]

Ok so i followed all the steps on the website you provided me with.

Before setting the page-filing to automatic, it showed that the total paging file size for all drivers was 512 MB. I have a 4GB RAM and now it shows what the screenshot displays.

However there is no change with the result. The slow performance of my PC is still persistent

 

[Brink]

Ok, go ahead and click on the Change button, and let's see what it is fully set as.

 

[clubmimo123]

Here it is:

 

[Brink]

You're page file checks out ok.

How much free space do you have on your C: drive?

 

[clubmimo123]

You're page file checks out ok.

How much free space do you have on your C: drive?

I have 99.1 GB out of 596 GB.

 

[Brink]

Well, that wouldn't be an issue then.

You might see if troubleshooting with a clean startup may ID a culprit.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ation-conflicts-performing-clean-startup.html

 

[marsmimar]

In addition to all of the previous suggestions, have you run a full scan with your anti-virus of choice? Even if it comes back "no malware found" it wouldn't hurt to run some additional free scans since no anti-malware program is 100% effective 100% of the time. Some of the recommended free products are: Malwarebytes, SuperAntispyware, and ESET Online Scanner to name just a few.

Since this problem just started, you might consider doing a System Restore to an earlier date/time. Maybe something updated in the background and messed things up. If a System Restore doesn't help you can always undo the restore.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html

System Restore - Undo

 

[Layback Bear]

I would like to see post #2 by AddRAM completed as requested.

 

[clubmimo123]

Alright so for some odd reason my computer is back up to standards. I believe the problem was (some how) my internet being conflicted with a router.

Anyhow, im going to mark this solved. Thank you all who helped me. The paging filing thing helped me quite a lot in terms of boosting my PC performance.

If this issue reopens, then il have to re-post this :/. So please do not get disappointed.

 

[Brink]

Great news.