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[Mavelia]

I've been running Mass Effect on Steam, and for the last three days I keep getting this error window roughly every thirty minutes to an hour or so that I play, and then the game crashes! I've played plenty of other games on my computer, including DA:O and DA2, and they've worked fine, so this is really throwing me off. I've googled this issue, and while it seems other people have had it, I haven't seen a solution.

The message reads:
"Ran out of Virtual Memory. To prevent condition, you must free up more space on your primary hard disk. MallocLarge(size=2101248, type= 4096, protect = 4, VM = 1952440320/2147352576)"

It seems to crash the most when I'm walking around on the Normandy or on the pause screen (especially if I'm going to equipment or saving/loading), but it's also crashed on the galaxy map, in the Mako, and sometimes while walking around on a planet. Fortunately, it hasn't crashed in combat or during a conversation... Yet.

Since then, I have freed up disk space with disk cleanup, defragmented, and deleted most of the video files on my computer to make room. I've also installed the latest patch (as well as at one point tried reinstalling the game to see if it would make a difference). When I'm running the program and look at it in the Processes tab of the Task Manager, it moves around between using up 800,000KB to over 1,300,000KB memory (or even over 1,500,000KB when it's crashing). That seems high to me, or like an abnormally wide range, but I don't usually keep track of this sort of thing, so I don't know how typical that is.

My computer specs are...
OS: Windows 7, 64 bitRAM: 6GB
Processor: Intel® Core™ i3 CPU 530 @ 2.93GHz
Display Driver: Intel® HD Graphics, version 8.15.10.2622 (currently up to date)

Total Space on Drive C: 919GB capacity
Used: 263GM
Remaining: 654GB

Total Available Graphics Memory: 1696GB
Shared System Memory: 1632GB

If there's any other information that'll help, I'll dig it up!

Notably, I also had an issue earlier where the game kept freezing and the entire system would crash during a cutscene on Feros (where the pressurized door is cutting off an "arm" of the geth ship), but I was able to eventually bypass that by alt-tabbing out during most of the cutscene and then loading the autosave it got after the conversation afterwards crashes. This doesn't seem to be the same sort of thing though, since then the game would freeze and my entire computer would have to be shut down, but now it's just the game crashing.

I've just been quicksaving constantly and playing anyway, but this is getting to be a pain. I'd really appreciate any help on this, I feel like if it was any other game I'd have quit out of frustration by now, but I'm just enjoying ME way too damn much.

Thank you!

Modifié par Mavelia, 15 février 2012 - 10:12 .

[Mavelia]

Also: I have seen this thread, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable buying a new graphics card just to (hopefully) run a five-year-old game.

[mcsupersport]

Virtual memory usually is the hard drive space allotted to the operating system for use when RAM is full or almost full to handle larger files and processes. You may try changing the allowable disk space allotted to Virtual Memory in your control panel.

The main issue you are probably having though is you are running a NON-supported Graphics card and thus will likely have random issues trying to play the game. The issue is Intel Graphics and the mediocre way the support their cards and games, if you had an AMD card, you would probably not have this issue.

[Mauu]

Virtual memory has nothing to do with the free space of your har disk (Unless you have less tan say, 5 GB free) you can set the amount of virtual memory via windows configuration, tough i can't remember how. Just look how to set it up, and to how much you should set it according to your RAM, if the problem persists come back here

[Mavelia]

I did try changing the allowable disk space yesterday, but unfortunately it didn't make any difference. Fortunately though, I'm checking back here with good news - I finally figured it out! Yay!

It was bugging me because the game had been working fine just earlier this week, so I just backtracked all the things that I'd changed since then. When I was trying to bypass the Feros cutscene glitch a few days ago, I had updated my driver, but it turns out the newest version is pretty damn screwy with older games and appears to have caused the memory issues (somehow? I'm not exactly tech savvy, in case you can't tell!). I switched back to using update 2361, and now everything's working fine again! I've even been able to run the game with max graphic settings without a hitch. So, 2622 was just crap, I guess!

Thanks for your support, guys! Everything seems to be fine now, so let's hope it stays that way.

Modifié par Mavelia, 15 février 2012 - 10:15 .

[Gorath Alpha]

IMO, it is doubtful that any of Intel's junk video can or will "stay that way". All will keep on failing at one point or another because they simply do not meet proper quality standards.