Ark keeps crashing from low memory.

[AmericanFellow]

I start by running my game, once everything has loaded I set the priority for Arkon high. I click back onto the game, load mods for the sevrer I play on and join the game. Within two minutes the game crashes, giving me the the crash paper and also telling me I am on low memory.

My computer has been fine for the past few days. Some low memory warnings. Maybe a crash once, but everything plays fine. Idk if this is becuase of the new update that my computer has suddenly started crashing as soon as I join. My memory loss has sky rocketed. I don't know what to do.

I run on an i7 processer and 8gb of ram. I run Ark on Low memory mode (4GB).

[Prometheus]

I've experienced similar crashes. I'm currently deleting and reinstalling the game and removing all mods to see if that was the problem. Not sure if it will fix the issues, but I am not very hopeful.

[AmericanFellow]

Originally posted by Prometheus:

I've experienced similar crashes. I'm currently deleting and reinstalling the game and removing all mods to see if that was the problem. Not sure if it will fix the issues, but I am not very hopeful.

Let me know if that fixes it. I just deleted the GameUserSetting to see if that might fix anything.

[JDaremo Fireheart]

okay, your CPU & ram are good but how much Video RAM do you have? What video card?
Memory crashes can be from the VRAM and not only from RAM

I have a dual core 3.9ghz with 8gb ram and it runs most times fine except when a lot of building pieces or dinos render in at once. Make sure your view distance is on medium at least and not epic.

[AmericanFellow]

Originally posted by JDaremo Fireheart:

okay, your CPU & ram are good but how much Video RAM do you have? What video card?
Memory crashes can be from the VRAM and not only from RAM

I have a dual core 3.9ghz with 8gb ram and it runs most times fine except when a lot of building pieces or dinos render in at once. Make sure your view distance is on medium at least and not epic.

I have a 2.40GHz processer. I am only ever on low. Sometimes medium.

[Vesuvius]

Originally posted by AmericanFellow:

Originally posted by JDaremo Fireheart:

okay, your CPU & ram are good but how much Video RAM do you have? What video card?
Memory crashes can be from the VRAM and not only from RAM

I have a dual core 3.9ghz with 8gb ram and it runs most times fine except when a lot of building pieces or dinos render in at once. Make sure your view distance is on medium at least and not epic.

I have a 2.40GHz processer. I am only ever on low. Sometimes medium.

He means ... what video card (GPU) do you have and how much vram does it have.

[AmericanFellow]

Originally posted by Vesuvious:

Originally posted by AmericanFellow:

I have a 2.40GHz processer. I am only ever on low. Sometimes medium.

He means ... what video card (GPU) do you have and how much vram does it have.

Do you know where I can find that information?

[retsam1]

Originally posted by AmericanFellow:

I start by running my game, once everything has loaded I set the priority for Arkon high. I click back onto the game, load mods for the sevrer I play on and join the game. Within two minutes the game crashes, giving me the the crash paper and also telling me I am on low memory.

My computer has been fine for the past few days. Some low memory warnings. Maybe a crash once, but everything plays fine. Idk if this is becuase of the new update that my computer has suddenly started crashing as soon as I join. My memory loss has sky rocketed. I don't know what to do.

I run on an i7 processer and 8gb of ram. I run Ark on Low memory mode (4GB).

With each update the mem demands and issues continue to mount. Almost 2 years ago when Ark didnt even have wolves and mammoths with fur, the 8gb ram memory and gpu minimums were accurate. Now they're far far from it. They're adding more all the time but not optimizing nore plugging memory leaks that cause low end rigs to just sputter out.

Also is the server you're playing on a modded server? Mods add to mem demand and complications worse if they're on a poor hardware machine themselves that'll compound your issues.

If you havent, make sure you turn off sky effects and keep all settings in low otherwise. Outside of that there is nothing you can really do at this point and may need to shelve playing until either you get a better rig or the far far future when the game moves into beta and the major optimization passes occur.

[Prometheus]

I'm using a Geforce GTX 980 with 16 Gig Vram. I can't think that it would be underpowered for this game. Hopefully the erasure and reinstallation of a clean unmodded version will prove successful in eleminating the crashes. Problem is, the file size is so f.... big it's taking me awhile to download again. I have all of the DLC's.

[FirstToDie]

My memory leak is caused by the sky effects. If I use -nomansky in my launch properties, I do not ever experience a memory related crash.

On max sky effects, I can watch task manager as shootergame.exe slowly consumes all of my 16gig of ram.

Strangely enough, a coworker is able to play with max sky effects and never crashes due to memory.

My system is older, I5 2500k @ 4.3gig gtx 1070 (oc'd to 2100) ARK on SSD, Windows 10 64 bit 16gig of ram.
Full sky effects = memory crash after 2 hours.

VS

I5 4770k no OC, gtx 1080 no OC, ARK on mechanical HD, Windows 10 64 bit, 16gig of ram.
Full sky effects = no memory crash

[maestro]

So recent patch the notes say this:
- Random GPU Driver crash fix: TrueSky
I have no idea if this is actually a fix for the very real crash that we're talking about.
I wanted to test this out haven't yet.
Ever since i ran the -nomansky command I haven't had the memory crash, I'm just wondering if the two things are one and the same issue or related somehow.
Yes I've had video crashes and memory crashes. I know they aren't the same thing but still makes me wonder.

Either way you shouldn't need to be running with 4gb ram mode, you have 8gb so that's not the problem.

[Prometheus]

Ok, I did a complete wipe of the game from my system, but did not remove any registry entries pertaining to the game. Just removed the related folders and file found in the steam directory, after first having un-installed the game from the steam menu. I also removed the majority of the mods from the subscribed menu in steam. Only left the DLC's, Prehistoric TC, Primative + TC, and some maps (Africa, TOW, The Center). I then ran a vanilla game and built up to the wood tier and I experienced no memory errors, disappearing structures, or game crashes. So, I then deleted the local savegame folder and files and ran the Prehistoric TC on a clean restart. Again I built up to the wood tier and had no memory errors, disappearing structures, or game crashes.

So, the results of my investigation lead me to believe what others have already been saying, there was a mod conflict that caused a mem leak and/or data corruption. While these mods are often times fun, they can be devistating to the game when mixed with other mods without testing for compatability and memory leaks. If anyone comes up with a different result, please share.

[AmericanFellow]

Originally posted by Prometheus:

Ok, I did a complete wipe of the game from my system, but did not remove any registry entries pertaining to the game. Just removed the related folders and file found in the steam directory, after first having un-installed the game from the steam menu. I also removed the majority of the mods from the subscribed menu in steam. Only left the DLC's, Prehistoric TC, Primative + TC, and some maps (Africa, TOW, The Center). I then ran a vanilla game and built up to the wood tier and I experienced no memory errors, disappearing structures, or game crashes. So, I then deleted the local savegame folder and files and ran the Prehistoric TC on a clean restart. Again I built up to the wood tier and had no memory errors, disappearing structures, or game crashes.

So, the results of my investigation lead me to believe what others have already been saying, there was a mod conflict that caused a mem leak and/or data corruption. While these mods are often times fun, they can be devistating to the game when mixed with other mods without testing for compatability and memory leaks. If anyone comes up with a different result, please share.

Starting the game over always works fine. It's playing on local time and time again that causes major lag when you start the game again. Also if you stay in the same area you aren't loading anything therefore there would be no memory usage.

The thing that causes crashes for me is:
1. Exploring the world/Collecting supply drops
2. I explereience major fps lag when I load on a local world after the first time playing.
These are just some more things that you have to test before you say that it works.

[AmericanFellow]

Originally posted by Prometheus:

Ok, I did a complete wipe of the game from my system, but did not remove any registry entries pertaining to the game. Just removed the related folders and file found in the steam directory, after first having un-installed the game from the steam menu. I also removed the majority of the mods from the subscribed menu in steam. Only left the DLC's, Prehistoric TC, Primative + TC, and some maps (Africa, TOW, The Center). I then ran a vanilla game and built up to the wood tier and I experienced no memory errors, disappearing structures, or game crashes. So, I then deleted the local savegame folder and files and ran the Prehistoric TC on a clean restart. Again I built up to the wood tier and had no memory errors, disappearing structures, or game crashes.

So, the results of my investigation lead me to believe what others have already been saying, there was a mod conflict that caused a mem leak and/or data corruption. While these mods are often times fun, they can be devistating to the game when mixed with other mods without testing for compatability and memory leaks. If anyone comes up with a different result, please share.

I could try deleting all my mods and only download the ones from the server I play on. That would hopefully fix any memory leak problems if the mods that are NOT in the server I play on are the problem, but if the mods that I require to play on the server are the problem, I will just have to deal with crashes when exploring the world.

[NGCaliber]

You shouldn't need to set high priority for memory usage on ARK if you are using low memory mode. You shouldn't need to use it at all, that is probably why it is crashing. Yes ARK uses a lot of memory, but if you tell the computer to give priority of your system resources, one or two of ARKs dependents like DirectX, video drivers, etc.. may crash or timeout due to a lack of memory. Windows by default reserves these resources from being taken from other installed devices and software.

[CMDR Erik Alan]

Not the mods, it's your memory. You'll also want an ssd. Seems to have helped a lot