Apex Crash - Out of memory
After running fine for the longest, my game has started crashing within about 30-60 seconds of leaving the dropship. Initially, I couldn't even see the error message, it just crashed and dropped me in desktop. A second attempt yielded an out of memory crash and another error related to graphics I think. I updated my graphics card, and have not seen the error since, but I'm still getting an out of memory crash report. No other programs other than origin, apex legends, and discord were running at the time. Not sure if it was related, but I suddenly got 3-4 disconnects yesterday after running the game more or less smoothly for a long time. Here is my crash report:
Apex Crash - Out of Memory
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Apex crashed because it ran out of memory.
The most common causes of this are:
• "Texture Streaming Budget" is too high in your video settings. Lowering this can help.
• All other programs plus Apex combine to use too much memory. Quitting other programs can help.
• Your Windows page file is set too small. Increasing the page file size can help. (The page file lets Windows move less important memory to disk until it's needed again.)
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
• Apex was using 2.6 GB of physical memory.
• Apex was using 5.2 GB of virtual memory.
• Apex failed to allocate 2.0 MB of memory.
• Your PC has 16.0 GB of memory physically installed.
• Your PC has 128.0 TB of virtual memory (with the page file).
• After Apex exited, your PC memory load is about 35%.
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Also, for future reference, should I make a new topic when I have an issue like this, or reply in an older post? As most of the posts I've seen were created in 2019, I figured making a new post may be more relevant.
I've managed to do some searching on the topic, and found people recommending the minimum and maximum to be at 1.5x and 4x respectively. It seems to have fixed the issue, as I've been running the game fine since, with no other ill effects. Though I'm not sure why it became an issue in the first place, been playing Apex since April 2019 and never looked at the file page settings, so why did it mess up now? On the off chance there's anything else to learn, I've included my dxdiag. Thanks for the assistance.
