All of these programs or actions will consume memory: streaming a video or music, running a web browser, services running in the background like or Steam, running other programs to capture your video or stream online, etc. (The amounts of RAM will differ according to your system.)Įven if you have 16GB RAM (minimum recommended for Star Citizen), you have other processes running that consume RAM with the game running. This may be occurring due to a Star Citizen memory leak, or other applications consuming memory with Star Citizen. What does this message mean? Your system is using close to your maximum available memory. Starting with 3.1.1-LIVE.741247, we added memory checks and messaging to help notify when you are experiencing memory issues.
If you are new to editing these settings, don't panic! We will walk you through it.
Any changes you make can be easily undone. These instructions walk through updating your page file. The page file instructs the drive to set a minimum and maximum amount for providing memory to that specific drive and any applications run on it. If you receive an out of memory error, you may need to increase your page file size for Windows on the fastest drive on your system with available space.
