How do you give Garry's Mod more RAM?

[Dylotron]

I often play Garry's Mod with my friend, but I constantly crash because the game runs out of RAM space. I don't know what to do, Can someone help?

My computer is a mid-2015 15-inch MacBook Pro with an i7 Quad Core at 3.2GHz, an Intel Iris Pro 6200 GPU & 16GB RAM.

I have tried the -Heapsize launch command, but it still runs into the issue.

Update from 2021:
Big thanks to everyone who's helped over the years, this problem hasn't peaked its head in a long time luckily! Probably also helped that I moved to a different system, but the RAM spec is almost identical (16GB DDR3, the PC is second-hand so nothing top-of-the-line)

[Torch]

buy a new ram card, and put into your computer

[dex]

1. Get the ♥♥♥♥ off that overpriced hipster "computer".
2. Look up how to build your own PC.
3. Find out it's actually less than half priced of any shapple computer products.
4. Dual boot Windows 7 and a user friendly distro of Linux so your dumbass hipster brain can understand something slightly.

[Madhouse]

http://downloadmoreram.com/

[GeoCharger]

Please dont try to download more ram!

[JG]

Originally posted by craze:

1. Get the ♥♥♥♥ off that overpriced hipster "computer".
2. Look up how to build your own PC.
3. Find out it's actually less than half priced of any shapple computer products.
4. Dual boot Windows 7 and a user friendly distro of Linux so your dumbass hipster brain can understand something slightly.

calm the ♥♥♥♥ down.

[Dylotron]

Originally posted by The Fanner:

buy a new ram card, and put into your computer

I have already done that and i have 16gb ram

[Kolopo★]

don't listen to these guys, gmod crashes after using more than 2gb to my knowledge, as it can only use 2 (or something). If i find something I'll bump this old post with a solution, which might be very technical if there is one at all.

[Kolopo★]

Alright so so this is what I came up with: I Haven't tested this because gmod hasn't used more than 2gb of ram since i found it, as I only have issues after a while of playing. Anyway as seen on http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/914642-half-life-2/26140750 , if you put -heapsize ***000 into the launch options with *** being half of your total ram at MOST, it will allocate more ram to it SUPPOSEDLY. For instance I put in "-heapsize 4096000" , as 4gb should be enough and I have 16gb total. Also in my launch options is -64bit, although I also don't know if that helps at all. A friend told me once to put -64bit in there, no clue if it actually does anything for gmod.

Just to reiterate, I have no clue if anything I wrote actually works in practice, and for me only time will tell.


-quick edit: I should also mention I am trying to fix an overflow crash, I believe it looked something like this http://oi50.tinypic.com/e68tva.jpg (not my image, just one i found on the internet)

-According to https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Command_Line_Options "-heapsize <kilobytes> - Specifies the heapsize (in kilobyte) the game will use. This no longer exists on the Source 2009." Still unsure if it will work or not, as gmod is its own beast but looks unlikely. Worth a try though right.

[Hunt0sOne0ss]

Originally posted by craze:

1. Get the ♥♥♥♥ off that overpriced hipster "computer".
2. Look up how to build your own PC.
3. Find out it's actually less than half priced of any shapple computer products.
4. Dual boot Windows 7 and a user friendly distro of Linux so your dumbass hipster brain can understand something slightly.

♥♥♥♥ mac

[Dylotron]

Originally posted by %s:

Why the ♥♥♥♥ are you guys bumping a year old thread?

Because i am still having said problem.

[OSX_IRIS]

something i've found that is not a permanent fix, but it will help, try deleting any kind of add-on that you don't use. the problem is garry's mod for mac runs on a virtual machine so it ends up using more ram then it should, also i've found that it crashes a LOT less on either single player or if you host. also if it gives you a crash notification then click "show details" and try to figure out the problem from there. hope this was of help to you.

[Nematoid]

easy. add some goat!

[Harry]

You can't add more than 4GB of ram to gmod cause it's a 32 bit game.

[Dylotron]

Originally posted by Starlight:

something i've found that is not a permanent fix, but it will help, try deleting any kind of add-on that you don't use. the problem is garry's mod for mac runs on a virtual machine so it ends up using more ram then it should, also i've found that it crashes a LOT less on either single player or if you host. also if it gives you a crash notification then click "show details" and try to figure out the problem from there. hope this was of help to you.

I have done that a lot of times and the only thing that ever popped up was awesomium files.

[Dylotron]

Originally posted by Kolopo★:

Alright so so this is what I came up with: I Haven't tested this because gmod hasn't used more than 2gb of ram since i found it, as I only have issues after a while of playing. Anyway as seen on http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/914642-half-life-2/26140750 , if you put -heapsize ***000 into the launch options with *** being half of your total ram at MOST, it will allocate more ram to it SUPPOSEDLY. For instance I put in "-heapsize 4096000" , as 4gb should be enough and I have 16gb total. Also in my launch options is -64bit, although I also don't know if that helps at all. A friend told me once to put -64bit in there, no clue if it actually does anything for gmod.

Just to reiterate, I have no clue if anything I wrote actually works in practice, and for me only time will tell.


-quick edit: I should also mention I am trying to fix an overflow crash, I believe it looked something like this http://oi50.tinypic.com/e68tva.jpg (not my image, just one i found on the internet)

-According to https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Command_Line_Options "-heapsize <kilobytes> - Specifies the heapsize (in kilobyte) the game will use. This no longer exists on the Source 2009." Still unsure if it will work or not, as gmod is its own beast but looks unlikely. Worth a try though right.

I looked up the forum and i have done what it says, it seems yo have made a difference. Thank you