Out of Memory Error

[DyNaMiX]

No matter what my settings are, I cannot get a single mission or campaign to load with this game. As soon as a map finishes loading, it'll crash to desktop with an "out of error message".

With 6 GB of RAM, clearly there is a bug somewhere that I cannot find a solution for. Does anyone have any suggestions? :)

[[AU] Tabris:DarkPeace]

I'm assuming that you're running Windows 7 x64 unless you specify otherwise. Since you have 6GB of RAM that is a fair call.

1) Do you have your pagefile disabled, or set to an abnormal size (e.g. under 1GB on any volume(s)).

2) Have you tried adding the "-nomap" parameter to the Launch Options of ARMA: CWA?

3) Are you using any 3rd party addons or mods with the game, as these are known to cause problems under certain system configurations.

4) Are you able to paste the contents of the *.cfg files in the games folder here for reference?

[DyNaMiX]

Thank you so much for your reply! 1) solved it!

I have two physical hard drives in my PC. A system drive with Windows, all my programs (except games) and my personal files. The second drive hosts Steam and all my games.

For whatever reason, that second drive did not have a page file at all! I have no idea why. The first drive still had it.

So I created one on the gaming HDD and now it works! I wonder if I'll even see a performance increase in other games. I have no idea how this even occured or how it was undetected for so long...

[[AU] Tabris:DarkPeace]

That should not have resolved it, maybe your pagefile (and/or free space) on your OS drive was set too small / unable to grow dynamically.

Either way, can't complain.

[Oriflame]

Here is the real issue for this out of memory crash; it is view distance. All you need to do is zero out the view distance back down to lowest/500 before exiting the game.