I recently changed my video card for a ATI Radeon 5750 1gb vram. Had it for about 3 days and everything was fine till today I had a pop-up in my screen while playing that told me that my computer has ran out of paged pool memory. Never heard of that. What might be wrong? This is the actual message : "Your computer has run out of paged pool memory. Visual quality may degrade. Your graphics settings have been lowered to help, but performance may still be poor." and this is my pc spec : AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 245 Processor 2.91 GHz, 1,87 Go Ram ATI Radeon 5750 1gb vram
Not of any help.. Sc2 is far from taking all my ressources.. And I've nothing running in the background. Not even anti-virus, just the minimum. So I don't know where this problem is coming from.
Well, I don't ever recommend not running an Anti-virus (if your AV is Kaspersky or McAfee, you get whats coming to you, Norton and Microsoft Security Essentials seem to be the best in the background). 1st, please list more of your computer specs. Please post as much of the following as you can: Laptop or Desktop? Operating System (Windows XP, Vista, 7, 32/64-bit, MacOSX 10.xx) CPU [AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 245 Processor] Power Supply Unit (PSU, if you know what it is) RAM Make, model, speed, amount [1,87 Go Ram??] Motherboard Make and Model (if you are aware of what it is) Harddrive Make, Model, RPM Speed, and cache amount (if you are aware of what it is) Video Card Make and Model [ATI Radeon 5750 1gb vram] Now, there are a few things that could be doing this imo. The first is if you manually set your page file to a size lower then 4GB (which I would NEVER do, although I will always manually set it). 2nd, if your machine is set to manually manage the page file, not having enough free space on the hard drive could cause big problems. If you have less then 6GB of free space, that could be the problem. When doing general maintenance on a machine, these are the steps i generally follow: -Run my Anti-virus scanner (I will only recommend Norton and Microsoft Security Essentials [Freeware!!] to people). I don't care how good your firewall setup is, or how many routers your behind, run a active virus scanner unless you are going to unplug your machine from the Internet!!! -Run SUPERAntiSpyware, and/or Spybot S&D, and/or Ad-Aware. To check/clean Spyware/Malware. -Uninstall/delete/move any applications/files you don't need, delete temp files, etc. -Make sure Windows is up-to-date by running Windows Update. -Defrag with PerfectDisk Pro. I do not recommend any other defrager. PerfectDisk not only will help you delete all kinds of temp files easily, but it's offline defrag can defrag your pagefile and hibernate file(which I have found no other defrager that can), and it optimizes file layouts so the oldest files don't need to be defraged so much. -run "msconfig," go to boot tab, advanced options button, check "number of processors:" and set that as high as it will let you. It doesn't improve game performance at all (just boot time)... but its just nice otherwise. -Gamebooster is a nice free piece of software for shutting down non-essential services while gaming. It too, is just "nice" (and a hell of a lot easier then just manually disabling services).
SC2 paged pool memory low I've found that each version of windows comes with different default settings for paged pool memory, and this setting seems to be especially low for windows xp. I was able to boost my paged pool memory limit from 160MB to 358MB by removing the restriction on my windows xp. SC2 went from being unplayable to running perfectly smoothly at medium settings. This change is made in the registry. To do it: 1. find the regedit application and open it (I used windows search tool). 2. follow the path: SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session Manager/Memory Manager. 3. In the Memory Manager folder, find the file called "pagedpoolsize" and double click on it. 4. change the value here (it probably says 0x10000000) to "0xffffffff". "ffffffff" is hexadecimal for "4GB" but this value also represents the maximum possible value in a registry entry of this type. Therefore windows also interprets this command as "allocate the most memory possible." So paged pool limit will not go up to 4GB (unless you have ridiculous amounts of RAM) but it will go up to the maximum possible for your system, which in my case was 358 MB. 5. You must reboot for registry changes to take effect.
technically 0xffffffffffffffffffffff (wait, that's to many, whatever) is a number, it's just not in base 10, its in base 15 (hexadecimal).
This is interesting! I've been trying to do what you did Zach, but failed in the process. This is the closest I find. In fact while searching the whole reg I can't locate a "pagedpoollimit" or "paged pool limit". This is the closest I get. BTW, there's a lot of system folders, where did you find yours you refer to?
Rottweilexpress, I'm sorry I mistyped that file name. You're in the correct place, it's the "pagedpoolsize" file you see there. I asked around in another forum and it seems theXev is correct, "ffffffff" is hexadecimal and means 4GB. However "ffffffff" also represents the maximum possible value for a registry entry of this type, so Windows interprets the command as "allocate the most possible". So it won't boost your paged pool limit to 4GB (because it can't), but windows will allocate as much to this pool as it can, which in my case, turned out to be 358MB, plenty to run SC2. I made the appropriate corrections in my initial thread. Thank you both.
If this works I'm gonna f* love you. But I'm working nightshift and can't find out right now. Still planning to upgrade to W7 in the near future.
Sorry if i break in, but i have some return questions here i have 78 Gb free on G:/ where i have SC2 installed, but C:/ have shrinked considerable since i decided to sett a manual page file on C:/ in "10 - 3989" that leaves me with 4.5 gb free on C:/ (originally 20 gb ) if the page-file on C:/ could do just as good lying on G:/ instead i should consider it off course, but im not clear on whether all my 4 drives shall have 1 page file of its own, or if just 1 on the system drive will spread across all 4 drives? if so then i have to raise the value probably? :wacko:
I saw a thread on teamliquid talking about messing with the paged pool size. I really don't think its a good idea. Normally that's supposed to be twice your physical RAM. I would try, these in the variables.txt file first: pagedPoolLimitEnforced=1 texspace=512 I think these issues are problems with SCII and not user's computers, but per your question, there's just the one page file on C:
Im a completely :wacko: newbie when it comes to instructions as yours, where are you to start with? are you in the starcraft directory with your textfile? does this take place inside regedit? i even did a computer search for a "variables.txt" file without result I have tested both this reglines in this thread, and before also a complete regfile from here http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=113433 but no one of them have helped my computer, when you do alot of reloading of saves this seems unavoidable, i guess the game stores alot of memory during every new campaign load, and it doesn't release it when its done, so sooner or later it will hit my head in the ceiling, at least it feels like this is the scenario the interesting thing is that i have game booster active now during SC2, and it stopped all the unnecessary services (at least it claimed have done, still i could keep using internet) and it releases about 123 in ram also before i start the game ontop of this i use the neighbour freeware tool "advanced system care" to do all kinds of things blizzard them self would surely have recommended if thei where to come up with a solution still after 20 minutes of gaming i can **** on to get the first pool memory message, and then its just to exit game, and restart it....and the memory becomes filled again i guess...cause the message will take time to return from now on, but its an evil circle that makes you wanna turn of the game for the entire day...once it does this enough in a row :radar:
This is the variables.txt file in My Documents/Starcraft II Really, it should be completely unnecessary to mess with regedit or any of this other stuff just to get a game working. These are bugs in the game and some of them have work arounds and some don't.
