"Out of Video Memory" Error & Crash

[gloomz]

I get the "Out of Video Memory" error every time I try to boot the game up. The original Outer Worlds (Non Spacer's Choice) works fine, but this specific version doesn't run at all.
I've tried verifying, uninstalling / reinstalling, etc, my BIOS is up-to-date as are all my drivers.

Any fix?

MOBO: Z790 Aorus Elite AX
CPU - i7-13700k
Ram: 32 GB
Video Card: RTX 4090

[Andrew176]

Did you get it working? I had that issue tried a few things and validating the install seemed to fix it for me.

[gloomz]

Originally posted by Andrew:

Did you get it working? I had that issue tried a few things and validating the install seemed to fix it for me.

Validated files and it gets to the Obsidian logo and then errors out. Fresh Windows, various bios updates, same issue.

[Lava_Torrent]

Cause is most likely uncapped frame rate. Temporarily use your GPU software to cap frames so that you can get to the settings in game. Once a cap is set in game, you can remove it from the GPU software cap.

[AT1st]

Originally posted by Lava_Torrent:

Cause is most likely uncapped frame rate. Temporarily use your GPU software to cap frames so that you can get to the settings in game. Once a cap is set in game, you can remove it from the GPU software cap.

Thanks for the hint. I have a 240 Hz display and setting it to 120 would let me start the game. I then switched to full screen mode in game which probably fixed the issue. At least now it will also start with 240 Hz.

[RACHMANOVSKI]

Solution: Refund this version of the game and buy the original version instead.

[RACHMANOVSKI]

Originally posted by PaulKrawitz:

Originally posted by RACHMANOVSKI:

Solution: Refund this version of the game and buy the original version instead.

Nah, but is there a way to refund your opinion instead?

Why? somebody on Private Division angry that the botched version couldn’t sell more cashgrab version of the game?

[gloomz]

Turning off cpu hyper-threading solved all Out of Memory issues for all games for me.

[JustJanga]

This is second intel CPU in a row where I had issues with either hyperthreading or the turbo boost. In both instances issues were fixed by turning it off.
I think it's time to move onto AMD next time I build a PC...

[RPG Gamer Man]

Pagefile issues. It is not big enough. Please read the following guide to set your pagefile up manually. I do this now on all my new pc's and never got this error againL:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2114415052

I do not know why microsoft always keeps the pagefiles at 16mb, and with newer games, it should be definetly bigger.

Here is more info from microsoft..also quoted from the guide:

Originally posted by Microsoft:
Symptoms
Applications that frequently allocate memory may experience random “out-of-memory” errors. Such errors can result in other errors or unexpected behavior in affected applications.

Cause
Memory allocation failures can occur due to latencies that are associated with growing the size of a page file to support additional memory requirements in the system. A potential cause of these failures is when the page file size is configured as “automatic.” The automatic page-file size starts with a small page file and grows automatically as needed.

The IO system consists of many components, including file system filters, file systems, volume filters, storage filters, and so on. The specific components on a given system can cause variability in page file growth.

[mot]

I was getting this error consistently every 30 minutes of gameplay or so. Then I disabled my second monitor and only kept my main monitor on in the Windows display settings and the video memory errors stopped. Hope this helps someone.

[=PALMITu ☯∞☯]

Originally posted by mot:

I was getting this error consistently every 30 minutes of gameplay or so. Then I disabled my second monitor and only kept my main monitor on in the Windows display settings and the video memory errors stopped. Hope this helps someone.

WTF

[gloomz]

I'm running an I7-13700k and apparently it's a "known issue" with certain intel processors. More information here: https://www.thefpsreview.com/2024/02/23/motherboard-bios-settings-may-be-the-cause-for-instability-issues-with-intel-core-13th-and-14th-gen-unlocked-desktop-processors/

[hamis'hakan]

I'm getting the same issue, but even more consistently, and with a completely different set-up.
AMD Ryzen 5600
AMD radeon 6650 xt
16GB RAM
AM4 Aorus motherboard

[Fat Gamin']

Originally posted by JustJanga:

This is second intel CPU in a row where I had issues with either hyperthreading or the turbo boost. In both instances issues were fixed by turning it off.
I think it's time to move onto AMD next time I build a PC...

It's extremely concerning how many issues are popping up with Intel CPUs now. They're supposed to be the premium brand, the bigger company, with the products that just work out of the box. I've been using AMD for 4 years now with a Ryzen 5 3600 now a 5900X and the only issues I've had have been Ram related and that's just my board being picky, if you do what it says then it's happy.

I never thought in a million years we'd suddenly have Intel being the one with all the issues, worst part is they know about a lot of them and just won't fix them. Maybe 15th gen will fix some problems, but you shouldn't need to buy a new gen product.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by Dr. John Zoidberg:

Originally posted by JustJanga:

This is second intel CPU in a row where I had issues with either hyperthreading or the turbo boost. In both instances issues were fixed by turning it off.
I think it's time to move onto AMD next time I build a PC...

It's extremely concerning how many issues are popping up with Intel CPUs now. They're supposed to be the premium brand, the bigger company, with the products that just work out of the box. I've been using AMD for 4 years now with a Ryzen 5 3600 now a 5900X and the only issues I've had have been Ram related and that's just my board being picky, if you do what it says then it's happy.

I never thought in a million years we'd suddenly have Intel being the one with all the issues, worst part is they know about a lot of them and just won't fix them. Maybe 15th gen will fix some problems, but you shouldn't need to buy a new gen product.

They do not do long term testing. This is what is causing this issue. Instead, they tend to rush out their products without even testing what long term things will happen. This is why this happened in the first place.