I've investigated this issue quite a bit, and it's a bug in how Battlefield 4 interacts with the drivers for the graphics card. The memory usage you see comes from the non paged memory pool. Usually this goes up to about 80/90% when the problem occurs. It can be viewed by opening the task manager and then the tab Performance -> Memory on the left. Normally the 'Non Paged Pool' label says something between 0-200MB at maximum but when this problem occurs, it's 6GB for me. (out of 8GB total system ram).
The error in my case traces back to the driver atikmdag.sys which uses "MINI" as pool tag, but it is entirely possible this issue happens on NVidia cards aswell. Please note that this is still most likely a Battlefield 4 bug, and not a driver bug. There is absolutely nothing we as end users can do about it, so please EA/DICE; fix this.
Having the same issue
Win 8.1 64bit fresh installed yesterday. Came from win 7 and there is no configuration difference except i added a SSD. This problem was not occuring in win7 but is occuring now.
Radeon 6850
4Gb ram
AMD Phenom quad Core
I agree this appears to be an application issue, not a windows or driver issue.
First 2 days of the game release was perfect.. i had 0 crashes.
All of a sudden i started getting BSOD & Huge Lag due to the Memory Leaks. So many crashes i had to rebuild my OS due to such bad OS corruption from BSOD.
Recent AMD "beta driver" 9.2 at least crashes BF4 and gives me a DirectX Error instead of BSOD.
But today.. EVERY game i have to reboot my PC once it is over.. Or i will just crash cause i have no ram left.
---------------------------------------Error------------------------------------------------------------
DirectX function "device -> CreateTexture2D( &texDesc,
desc.subResrouceCount != 0 ? reinterpret_cast<const
D3D11_SUBSOURCE_DATA*>(desc.subResourceData) : 0,
&texture -> m_texture2d)" failed with E_OUTOFMEMORY ("Direct3D
could not allocate sufficient memory to complete the clal."). GPU:
"AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series", Driver: 13.11
(13.25.18-131107a-164684E-ATI). Free virtual memory: 4291121000kb /
4294967268kB. Total resource memory: 0kb. Make sure you have a
supported graphics card with at least 512 MB.
-----------------------------End of Error-------------------------------------------------------------
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T 3.7GHZ
Asus Sabertooth 990fx rev 1.0
16GB (4x4GB) RipJaw Ram
2x Raid 0 OCZ Vertex 4 SSD (128GB each)
AMD - XFX Radeon 6970 2GB
Windows 8 & 8.1 x64bit
I've tried every Beta driver from 1-9.2.
Every beta driver from 1-8 will BSOD the computer 50-75% of the time during memory leaks.
9.2 defiantly saves you from BSOD but still have to reboot PC.
After i rebuilt the desktop i left it at Windows 8 instead of migrating to 8.1 to experiment. Didn't really help any.
I have also tried playing the game low graphics, Medium Graphics & High Graphics.. Nothing seems to really matter.
