ArmA Crashing / Out Of Memory

[Maj (Ret) Bajor]

So, my ArmA is crashing every ~30 minutes. I load in, play and I have good frames no problems at all, and after around 30 minutes crash. I have standard mods, official server. It happens in random situations. Sometimes with explosion, sometimes just running. I have latest nvidia drivers and my windows is uptodate.

My rig: 
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming OC
i7-8700K
MSI Z370 SLI PLUS
rest is not important I guess.

RPT log:
 4:02:36 Error compiling 'HitArms' in 'hithands'
 4:05:33 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
 4:05:33 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
 4:05:33 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
 4:05:33 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
 4:05:33 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
 4:05:33 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
 4:05:33 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
 4:05:33 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
 4:05:33 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
 4:05:33 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
 4:05:33 CreateTexture failed : w = 4096, h = 4096, format = BC3_UNORM, err = E_OUTOFMEMORY.
 4:05:33 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
 4:05:33 Virtual memory total 134217727 MiB (140737488224256 B)
 4:05:33 Virtual memory free 134203558 MiB (140722631000064 B)
 4:05:33 Physical memory free 9211 MiB (9658662912 B)
 4:05:33 Page file free 25 MiB (27021312 B)
 4:05:33 Process working set 5330 MiB (5589413888 B)
 4:05:33 Process page file used 13506 MiB (14162546688 B)
 4:05:33 Longest free VM region: 157941760 B
 4:05:33 VM busy 1972387840 B (reserved 433876992 B, committed 1538510848 B, mapped 116748288 B), free 2322448384 B
 4:05:33 Small mapped regions: 35, size 147456 B
 4:05:33 VID: dedicated: 11667505152, shared 8566233088, system: 0, max: 11352932352, used: 6873460736
 4:05:33 ErrorMessage: DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
 4:05:33 Application terminated intentionally
ErrorMessage: DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY

Full file: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eAclbESGOQ5WVky9UGSUdJ3nMLh4SB-XRUlOurHuBtc/edit?usp=sharing

Ideas?

[Tater]

I utilized some of my Google-Fu and came up with this and this . It's the same person on two different websites and both solutions seem to include a fresh install of Windows 10 64bit. I'm not sure what you're using right now but I would not use this solution first since Windows 10 is not free anymore.

 

Are you using any sort of advanced launch parameters on Arma 3? I see that you have 4096MB of VRAM set aside for Arma 3. I suggest turning off that parameter and see what happens. There was a small blip at the bottom of that setting that states if you put it over 2GB of VRAM, it can have catastrophic results. 

 

I would also look into updating your video drivers via GeForce Experience, having the most up-to-date drivers can do wonders for your computer.

 

Also, check out this thread , it's the same guy but different solution. Making sure that you have disabled your integrated graphics from your i7-8700K and have everything render from your 1080ti can fix the memory issue since integrated GPUs only have 500MB (if that) of VRAM.

 

This is also a good read regarding 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems and the game. It's from 2008 so it might be kind of worthless. Do make sure you're running 32-bit Arma 3 for your 32-bit OS and 64-bit Arma 3 for your 64-bit Arma 3.

 

Some guy from this thread gave a detailed graphic regarding RAM usage in vanilla Arma 3 and it leads me to my next question, how many GB of RAM are you running? 

      | In use (Compressed) | Available | Committed    | Cached | Paged pool | Non-paged pool
=============================================================================================
Idle  | 3.0 GB (106 MB)     | 12.9 GB   |  3.6/18.3 GB | 2.0 GB | 350 MB     | 115 MB
A3    | 5.9 GB (1.3 GB)     |  9.5 GB   | 11.4/18.3 GB | 2.9 GB | 428 MB     | 143 MB
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Usage | 2.9 GB (1.2 GB)     |  3.4 GB   |  7.8/18.3 GB | 0.9 GB |  78 MB     |  28 MB

I threw a lot at you but I hope at least some of it is helpful. I'm no tech genius by any means so there's a lot that I do not know and I just skimmed the threads to get to the good parts. I wish you the best of luck!

[Maj (Ret) Bajor]

@Pvt Tater, first of all, thanks for responding. I forgot to add that I have this issue for over a month, since then I formated my ssd, installed clean win10 64x (fully legal), I updated nvidia drivers twice since they had 2 updates. Of course I am using 64bit arma. From your first post I only saw recommendation to enable page file which is disabled in my PC now. Will try that.

Vram parameter in arma was set automatically, I have this option empty in my launcher.

My launcher settings: https://prnt.sc/jegc32

I already tried disabling memory allocator but it crashed with that option off too. I have nvidia experience and I always update after I see new drivers.

My onboard GPU was already disabled so no luck with that solution.

Also, I have 16GB of DDR4 running at 3000mhz at XMP. I don't think that's not enough.
 

Edited May 6, 2018 by Maj Bajor

[B. Teed]

Make sure your arma is running in x64-bit

[Maj (Ret) Bajor]

Don't want to speak too soon but after many hours on REC server and full OP with LED I had 0 crashes.


Only major thing was to enable pagefile which I had disabled.

[Tater]

6 minutes ago, Maj Bajor said:

Don't want to speak too soon but after many hours on REC server and full OP with LED I had 0 crashes.


Only major thing was to enable pagefile which I had disabled.

Ayyyy! Glad to hear it!