Out of Memory - Game Crashes

[Hawkeye Pierce]

Hi!

Last year, I was able to play perfectly fine on mid to high graphics settings. I've wanted to get back into flying again this week and when I started DCS up, I was faced with a crash. After trying a few times, I've set my graphics settings to the lowest and I was able to fly.

After closing and restarting the game, it started crashing again in the loading screen.

I've already tried to manually set the page file which didn't change a thing. I have 16 GB of RAM but if the pagefile doesn't work, will new RAM do the trick...?

I'll attach my logs .zip

dcs.log-20250322-180121.zip

Edited March 22 by Hawkeye Pierce

[BIGNEWY]

Hi and welcome to the forum 

CPU cores: 6, threads: 12, System RAM: 14229 MB, Pagefile: 24576 MB

Your RAM is a little on the low side, so it would be advisable to increase your pagefile size to at least 32gb

 

[Hawkeye Pierce]

vor 2 Stunden schrieb BIGNEWY:

Hi and welcome to the forum 

CPU cores: 6, threads: 12, System RAM: 14229 MB, Pagefile: 24576 MB

Your RAM is a little on the low side, so it would be advisable to increase your pagefile size to at least 32gb

 

Like I said, increasing the pagefile didn't help. I've tried changing it to 32gb, 64gb, 128gb,...

[sleighzy]

1 hour ago, Hawkeye Pierce said:

Like I said, increasing the pagefile didn't help. I've tried changing it to 32gb, 64gb, 128gb,...

Drop another log file containing the crashes with the increasing of the pagefile. Remove your Saved Games\DCS\fxo and metashaders2 folders as well, DCS will rebuild these shader caches.

Also remove the `-force_disable_MT` parameter from your launch arguments. The syntax is a) invalid, and b) DCS is all multithreaded so this irrelevant.

[rob10]

1 hour ago, Hawkeye Pierce said:

Like I said, increasing the pagefile didn't help. I've tried changing it to 32gb, 64gb, 128gb,...

In fairness your system (while it may have worked before) is on the bottom end and may finally have tipped over to the point where it just isn't enough to run DCS anymore.

[Hawkeye Pierce]

Am 22.3.2025 um 23:11 schrieb sleighzy:

Drop another log file containing the crashes with the increasing of the pagefile. Remove your Saved Games\DCS\fxo and metashaders2 folders as well, DCS will rebuild these shader caches.

Also remove the `-force_disable_MT` parameter from your launch arguments. The syntax is a) invalid, and b) DCS is all multithreaded so this irrelevant.

Here's my latest log file with an increased pagefile - and increased RAM also

I mean... it says I'm out of memory for 436 GB - surely that can't be right, right? Especially because it's been saying that from the start - without the increased pagefile and RAM

 

dcs.log-20250324-212549.zip

Edited March 24 by Hawkeye Pierce

[silverdevil]

1 hour ago, Hawkeye Pierce said:

Here's my latest log file with an increased pagefile - and increased RAM also

I mean... it says I'm out of memory for 436 GB - surely that can't be right, right? Especially because it's been saying that from the start - without the increased pagefile and RAM

wie gehts? i remember another user with the odd memory annotation. i forgot what the cause was. i think 128 GB of RAM is overkill. i would drop it to 32. i know you say it does not matter in your case. i see an error mentioning the DCS temp folder.

2025-03-24 21:25:03.511 ERROR   EDCORE (Main): Failed to delete C:\Users\linkf\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS\tempMission.miz: Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.

go to that location to see if there are any contents. if so, it is safe to delete.

i dropped your log into the Discord analyzer

Advice

Verify that this is configured correctly in Windows:

Game Mode disabled
Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling disabled

PS try to make windows autosize your pagefile. i know it sounds counterintuitive but it may work.

tschuss

Edited March 24 by silverdevil

[MAXsenna]

2 hours ago, Hawkeye Pierce said:

Here's my latest log file with an increased pagefile - and increased RAM also
I mean... it says I'm out of memory for 436 GB - surely that can't be right, right? Especially because it's been saying that from the start - without the increased pagefile and RAM
 
dcs.log-20250324-212549.zip

Complaining about that number sounds like it's updating, a massive one, and running out of disk space. Never heard of that regarding RAM.

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Edited March 24 by MAXsenna

[sleighzy]

4 hours ago, Hawkeye Pierce said:

Here's my latest log file with an increased pagefile - and increased RAM also

I mean... it says I'm out of memory for 436 GB - surely that can't be right, right? Especially because it's been saying that from the start - without the increased pagefile and RAM

 

dcs.log-20250324-212549.zip 1.06 MB · 2 downloads

The DCS log analyzer indicates that this crashed from a memory timing issue:

Memory Timing Issues

• Remove any overclocking (XMP) from your RAM.

It also reports being out of memory, however this one is curious and may be related, i.e. you have underlying RAM issues hence it thinking it's out of memory.

Can you remove all overclocking from your RAM, including XMP profiles in your BIOS and then see if this continues to occur. Can you also use the Windows tools to do a check of your RAM in case there's any faults there.

[Hawkeye Pierce]

Am 25.3.2025 um 02:43 schrieb sleighzy:

Can you remove all overclocking from your RAM, including XMP profiles in your BIOS and then see if this continues to occur. Can you also use the Windows tools to do a check of your RAM in case there's any faults there.

I never had overclocking enabled but now I did enable it and that seems to have done the trick c:

DCS is running perfectly fine again ^^