[OPEN]Serious problem with RAM

[bkthunder]

I have 8Gb, I understand nowadays that's not exceptional but still, since 1.2.5 and now especially 1.2.6 I am unable to play because DCS is eating up all 8Gb of ram until it crashes.

 

Did the minimum requirements change so dramatically that one needs to buy an extra 8 gigs just to be able to play at the same settings that were fine pre 1.2.5?

[speckfire]

Can you reproduce this incident? Is it mission specific? Does this happen in single player or multi?

[bkthunder]

in multiplayer mostly, but I do get warnings that the PC is running low on memory even in single player. Never had this issue before 1.2.5/1.2.6, but now it's degraded A LOT with this latest patch. DCS uses 6 gigs of ram when I check in the resource monitor. I know others have reported this as a memory leak. This sim is in a constant Alpha state :(

[ENO]

You may want to run the system monitor as described in the post below:

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1838932&postcount=44

 

 

If you can post it with your crashes you might be able to help them nail the issue down.

 

I fly with a guy who was complaining of the same issue- virtual memory shortage or something like that and he has like 16 gigs of ram. It seemed REALLY odd but it wasn't consistent. I'll see if your notes match up.

 

what module were you using when it happened?

[speckfire]

I am suspecting memory leaks but so far I have nothing conclusive

[bkthunder]

Ok, here's a screenshot of what happens, with related memory usage. This happened on a server with just 1 other guy flying an A-10 in a totally different airport. I managed to load the P-51 cockpit (takes a while now) and then the message. Shortly after it crashes.

 

Also, while I was taking this screenshot, the memory usage by DCS.exe was constantly rising from even though I was on desktop and going back ingame would give me a black screen.

 

 

I tested my PC with several other games and none of them gave me this problem, including FSX, X-plane 9, Risde of flight, Hitman absolution, GTA IV, BF3, Arma 3 (all maxed out or nearly maxed out).

 

 

P.S. I can't run sithspawn's method 'cause i am missing the 'process' counter in my performance monitor (but please let's keep this thread on topic, I'll solve my windows problems elsewhere).

Edited September 15, 2013 by bkthunder

[bkthunder]

I'm doing more tests, and I get continuous crashes. By comparison, I flew a test mission in the old black shark 2, and no problems.

 

think it's time to shelve DCS once again :(

[ENO]

Can you throw up your crash files from the log folder?

[bkthunder]

Werid enough, it didn't generate any crash log for today's crashes... anyways here's two from yesterday.

 

More info: the memory usage seems to ALWAYS start at 5.10Gb, either SP or MP, with lots of units or just one aircraft, the size is always the same. THEN is starts to grow until it fills up, and it doesn't clear even if I exit the mission and go back to the UI, the ram remains fully occupied and / or keeps growing further. This doesn't happen with BS2 which uses about 4Gb and then clears after itself when exiting the mission.

 

 

# -------------- 20130914-211444 --------------

# C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at EA434601 00:00000000
00000000 00000000 0000:00000000 
EA434601 001EEDA0 0000:00000000  ?startMessageTransmition@wCommunicator@@MEAAXAEBV?$Ptr@VwMessage@@@Mem@@@Z()+51
EA43DEFC 001EEE30 0000:00000000  ?transmitMessage@@YAXPEAVwCommunicator@@AEBUwMessageData@@@Z()+33C
3FD498F3 001EF010 0000:00000000 
E99CEA9D 001EF050 0000:00000000  ??1Reader@Mail@@UEAA@XZ()+27D
E94A95DE 001EF0C0 0000:00000000 
E94A96B1 001EF110 0000:00000000 
E94A36CE 001EF140 0000:00000000 
E94B6994 001EF1B0 0000:00000000 
E94CF403 001EF1E0 0000:00000000 
E94E3A73 001EF210 0000:00000000 
3FDDAA45 001EF270 0000:00000000 
3FDF0A14 001EF2A0 0000:00000000 
3FDF08EB 001EF2D0 0000:00000000 
3FE84B38 001EF340 0000:00000000 
3FE86139 001EF940 0000:00000000 
3FE88DAB 001EF9F0 0000:00000000 
7748652D 001EFA20 0001:0001552D C:\Windows\system32\kernel32.dll BaseThreadInitThunk()+D
775BC541 001EFA70 0001:0002B541 C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll RtlUserThreadStart()+21

 

 

# -------------- 20130914-112512 --------------

# C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at E0E6B9FA 00:00000000
00000000 00000000 0000:00000000 
E0E6B9FA 0E2EF318 0000:00000000 
0E2EFB90 0E2EF320 0000:00000000 

[ENO]

So just to confirm is this just P51 causing the memory leak? I see that "old" BS2 is okay- you mean standalone 1111?

 

I also haven't seen any corrective actions that you've made so far-

 

Have you tried a repair?

 

Have you tried a reinstall?

 

Where did you get your 1.2.6 download / update from?

[lfc3333]

That's odd. I had the same problem you're having but with 4 Gbs. The other day I upgraded to 8GB and it now works.

Edited September 15, 2013 by lfc3333

[Nate--IRL--]

I'm doing more tests, and I get continuous crashes. By comparison, I flew a test mission in the old black shark 2, and no problems.

 

think it's time to shelve DCS once again :(

 

What is your swap file set at?

 

Nate

[Kaitsu]

I also get this low memory warning with 8 gig of ram now with 1.2.6.

[bkthunder]

So just to confirm is this just P51 causing the memory leak? I see that "old" BS2 is okay- you mean standalone 1111?

 

I also haven't seen any corrective actions that you've made so far-

 

Have you tried a repair?

 

Have you tried a reinstall?

 

Where did you get your 1.2.6 download / update from?

 

It happens with any module, that is: A-10, Ka-50, UH-1 and P-51.

Yes, I meant 1.1.1.1

 

No, I haven't tried a repair or a reinstall, my spare time unfortunately is quite limited and it's already gone wasted with the aforementioned problems. Maybe I'll give it a try next week, although my gut feeling tells me it's an issue with the current patch (I'm not the only one experiencing this).

[Kaitsu]

Oops, for some reason i had turned swap file off completely and enabling it cured it for me!

[Nate--IRL--]

I suspected that :)

 

Nate

[SkateZilla]

was about to say,

 

With Swap file on, I RARELY use over 4GB in SP Missions...

 

With Swap File off, it will continue to rise until the point that windows terminates the process for access_violation.

[NineLine]

Sorry if you already said this and I missed it, what OS are you running?

 

It happens with any module, that is: A-10, Ka-50, UH-1 and P-51.

Yes, I meant 1.1.1.1

 

No, I haven't tried a repair or a reinstall, my spare time unfortunately is quite limited and it's already gone wasted with the aforementioned problems. Maybe I'll give it a try next week, although my gut feeling tells me it's an issue with the current patch (I'm not the only one experiencing this).