Insufficient memory after last update (1.48.5.57s 64bit)

[LostToTheZone]

After last update it seems that 16gb are not enough for this game (no mods). Allocated memory goes to 100% after a while. Before the update everything worked fine, never had a problem in years and years. What's happened?
My system:
i7 6700k, gpu msi 1660, ram 16gb

[hackintoshchap]

Try verifying the Steam game files:
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0C48-FCBD-DA71-93EB

[LostToTheZone]

thx for the answer.
Every file (107) has been validated

[mojo_musica]

You must have some programs running in the background. Close everything except Steam, open task manager, run the game and see what the memory use is by tabbing out from the pause menu. Discord and other chat programs are very bad to run when the game is running, as well as browsers, stop all of them.
I have 16 Gb and have never run out of memory, even with programs running in the background.

[CrusherUK]

Make sure you have a pagefile.

[fgaliegue]

Can you define "a while"?

I also have 16 GiB of RAM and so far I've never run out, but the maximum time I've played continuously since the update was 2 hours.

At a first glance, it looks like a memory leak, but more information is needed.

[LostToTheZone]

Originally posted by mojo_musica:

You must have some programs running in the background. Close everything except Steam, open task manager, run the game and see what the memory use is by tabbing out from the pause menu. Discord and other chat programs are very bad to run when the game is running, as well as browsers, stop all of them.

Programs running in background are the same of yesterday: basically i use this pc only for gaming and I don't use chat programs.

Originally posted by CrusherUK:

Make sure you have a pagefile.

I do.

I don't want to be repetitive but the game worked perfectly till the last update, the only change on this pc from yesterday to today.

Originally posted by fgaliegue:

Can you define "a while"?

I've just played for about 50 minutes with riva tuner to check cpu and ram usage. Problem appeared after 10 minutes (usage ram from approximately 8300mb to 9300mb), the game reduced to windowed mode. I ran task manager, i kept playing in full screen without touching anything, even the windows error message. Usage ram was at 8600mb; after 40 minutes it was at 9000mb, without any warning message, but I didn't take another risk so I decided to exit the game.

[madman]

@LostToTheZone
Maybe you have to "Restart" your PC, especially if you let it running 24/7 for weeks or so. Just "Shutdown" won't always clearing allocated memory especially if you activate fast startup mode. Running out of physical RAM is a serious situation under normal usages. It could be software problem (memory leaks) or hardware problem (RAM defect). Consider to run RAM tests through benchmark software etc.,

[KINGASH]

i had the same issue i set my pagefile to 40 gb i saw while playing ets 2 page file usage is really high i saw usage upto 10 gb total ram and more than 20 gb pagefile while playing ets 2 so set your page file to atleast 40

[Wolfgang]

No issue on my end with 16GB RAM.

[LostToTheZone]

Thx guys for all the answers. The problem is much less clear than yesterday.
Here's what I've just tryed:
* Turned off steam cloud and overlay vr from steam settings
* Start the game
* Playing in windowed mode for about 20 minutes. No issues. Usage ram went from 6020mb to 7580mb according to what showed riva tuner.
* From ingame I switch to full screen mode. Still no issues. Usage ram ranged from 7550mb to 7850. Played for other 40 minutes, no issues.

Every now and then I've also checked performance monitoring in windows. Allocated memory was about 90% and Used physical memory 45%.

The differences from yesterday are two:
1) Usage ram increased constantly without decreasing
2) Alloacted memory was 100%

As Wolfgang says, 16GB were more than enough until yesterday; I didn't have a single problem in more than 2 years with this configuration with every setting to high or ultra.

[Wolfgang]

16GB of RAM are still more than enough for the game.

[MagnusA]

Originally posted by xTecHxTanya:

-mm_pool_size 15384 -mm_max_resource_size 50 -mm_max_tmp_buffers_size 1000

I read somewhere that mm_pool_size should be half of installed RAM. So with your 16 Gb RAM mm_pool_size should be maximum 8192.

With a memory pool size almost as much as total RAM there are no room there for other things, not even Windows itself. There will be a lot of swapping to disk.

That said, For most players it is best to leave these parameters alone and stick to default. But maybe you have a reason to have the values you have, I don't know.

[Maik | TEKKnPLAY]

Maybe a dxdiag.exe run can bring some informations. I know it´s an old diagnostic tool but it run as always. maybe some conflicts with some driverversions.
Also your readouts "RivaTuner" can be some...

[LostToTheZone]

I know dxdiag. But the problem is the game, because it worked till the update. Trying to figured out the problem, yesterday I made an attempt again in full screen checking resource monitor. After 46 minutes there's the issue, I checked resource monitor finding out that there were still 5gb of available memory; and according to riva tuner video memory usage was approximately 2400.
It's just like the game don't recognize anymore the available memory at its disposal.
Today I'm going to post my problem on scs forum hoping to solve it.

[Nimir-Raj]

Certain things were changed under the hood in 1.48.5 that could potentially affect performance, I don't think they would affect RAM usage in this way though.

If you post in the ETS2/Tech problems Max might see the post and be able to give some insight.