BeamNG.drive is trying to use more memory than possible. That's an error message.

[Alex]

BeamNG.drive is trying to use more memory than possible.

That is an error message I get from playing for more than 5 minutes. It crashes the game. My dad said it may be a memory leak, as it dumps memory into my RAM. I have all the requirements to run the game no problem. I think the hotfix broke the game, because it worked beforehand. A lot of people had this problem. I run the game 64x, but I also tried 32x/86x. Same problem. I've tried literally everything. Any ideas?

Try releasing a quick hotfix at some point to fix the issue. Thanks.

[Nadeox1]

What's your PC Specs?
In particular, how much RAM does it have?
(And how much available RAM does it have before starting the game? - Check in the Task Manager)

[Alex]

I've got the right specs. I use an AMD Radeon. And I've got 6GB RAM. When I get this memory leak thing, I check Task Manager and it uses literally more than 90% of my RAM. This never happened before. It seems to happen more often when I go to spawn a car on a large map (Such as East Coast USA). I'm not alone with this issue. It said something like suggesting I get more RAM, or increase Virtual Memory, or close applications. But it's not because of that.

Again, I didn't get this problem until that 0.10 hotfix. I'm a standard user, so I can't use Speccy to show my specs. If I did, I would show them.

What could've caused it? And can there be another hotfix to fix this issue?

[Alex]

I just got it AGAIN.
I uploaded a screenshot.
http://imgur.com/a/01XNN

[BombBoy4]

It shows that you only have 4GB of physical memory, opposed to the 6GB you said. 4GB is at the very lowest of playable amounts, and I'd recommend playing on at least 6GB. If you do have 6GB and task manager is not showing it all, try disabling mods and verifying integrity.
Also, what exact GPU do you have?

[SixSixSevenSeven]

that image shows you only have 4gb of RAM not the 6 you claim. ECA and Utah both use 4-5gb of RAM alone, with your operating system also wanting at least 1 to 2gb and any other applications open, basic math implies you simply dont possess enough ram

[Alex]

AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor 3.40 GHz
64-Bit OS

[Alex]

Huh... I guess I did only have 4GB Ram. Still though, I ran it just fine before. And even then it's still doing a memory leak. That's not something I can really fix, and RAM is expensive as heck to get.

Dad tried running the game on his computer (AMD Radeon with 8GB RAM 64-Bit Windows 10), and he also got this issue. I guess the game is just broken or something.

[CaptPatrick01]

Protip: If you are playing a sandbox game, any, BeamNG, Space Engineers, Minecraft, etc. You'll need 16 Gigabytes of RAM to run it safely, especially if you plan on using mods. 8 Gigabytes is fine for any other type of game however. I've had sandboxes run well into the 8-9 gigabytes before, sometimes even exceeding 12.85 in the case of SE.

[Los.Injurus.Bob.Blunderton]

If you have 2 + 2gb pair of RAM on your motherboard now, buy an 4+4gb pair (8gb total) to *ADD* to it. Have your dad (or whoever is computer knowledgeable in your family) pick up some kingston value ram or micron or samsung value series ram that matches the ram you have now.
Voltage must match the existing set, Mhz must match your existing set, and CAS latency must match the existing set that's in there. This will only work if you have FOUR ram slots with TWO occupied by your 2+2gb RAM now. IF you have 4x1gb sticks or have only TWO ram slots, you'll only be able to REPLACE your existing RAM (can sell the old set though or add it into another PC that is compatible). 8gb of ram isn't terribly expensive, and adding it to your existing set will give you 12gb. You will just have to make sure one 2gb and one 4gb stick is on each channel, so that you can still do dual channel mode.
You can even do dual channel with 3 sticks if ONE of the RAM sticks is double the size of the other two, just make sure you put the two smaller size sticks on one channel, and the lone larger size RAM module on the other channel (my AM3+ 970 chipset AMD board in a spare machine supports this, most do). So if you only have 20~30$ for a single 4gb stick, and you put that in your pc, if you put them in the correct slots, you can still have dual channel mode with 3 sticks.
This leaves the option to pick up another 4gb stick later on as money allows, move some around, and keep dual channel mode on. Dual channel allows you to access memory twice as fast.

8gb for gaming is minimum, 12~16gb for a 3 cars and a big map or a small map and up to 3 vehicles (limited by cpu to 3) might use around 6gb. Having the AI milling about controlling a few vehicles, can eat up ram quickly, as can using INS.
I have 16gb of ram here and I frequently crash out from out-of-ram scenarios, even when IT'S NOT USING ALL THE SYSTEM RAM! (66% ram use usually = crash).
Always says like 'couldn't allocate 1.5mb free memory block' or something to the effect in log...

Without enough ram in games, games will hitch up or frequently slow down especially open-world games. In Beamng.drive not enough RAM means you'll crash to the desktop.

Ram is decently priced on Amazon. Save up for black friday sales this year in about 2~3 months or whenever as they always have RAM on sale SOMEWHERE.

Wash the dishes, paint the dog, walk the bushes, prune the house, sweep the yard or mow the floor... something to earn money!

*Please reference your motherboard manual online to see what the largest RAM module size is, and the required speed / voltage / timing, etc.
Some AM2+ boards may not support 4gb per stick if they are DDR2 boards.
Example: My mother's ancient-but-boots-Win10-in-4-seconds Athlon II / 760G chipset ASROCK board supports 2gb per stick and has 4 slots so the max is only 8gb.
If you have DDR3, most all DDR3 boards support 4gb sticks, some (like for example, boards for AMD FX chips, AM3+) support 8gb sticks.
Computer shops may have some used RAM they can let go cheap if you know your specs. Also can look on Craigslist (have your parent do it if under-age).

[Alex]

Jesus...

[Rev Counter]

Originally posted by Beamng.mapper.Bob.Blunderton:

Wash the dishes, paint the dog, walk the bushes, prune the house, sweep the yard or mow the floor... something to earn money!

Ahahahaha this just made my day!! XD

[Alex]

And even then it's doing a memory leak. Sure, I may not have enough RAM, but even then it'll still dump the memory into it, and slow my PC down.

[.\*OG*/.Mr.Vaginitus]

You simply have ancient hardware. X4 955 is ancient, that is 3 upgrades ago for me, its multithreading is poor compared to new processors and its single core performance while it used to be no slouch really is dog slow now. It is an 8 year old processor that was never top of the line to begin with.

4gb of ram is simply not enough. You need 16 for games like this. Also you say radeon but radeo what? 390? 390x? 4 series? I had 390's in crossfire and even on a single card this game had some performance issues, now on a single 980 TI hybrid (sold my 390's during hte mining craze and made a tone of money) and have zero issues.

[Alex]

I can't open Speccy. My dad's the admin user. I'm a standard user. It's not a Radeon like I thought it was. It's a Phenom II X4 965 Processor 3.40 GHz.

[Chunky._.Llama]

I have 16gb and get the same error