same problem
Windows 8 pro x64/8.1 pro x64
Phenom II x4 965 be
Ati HD 6950 2Gb
4Gb Ram 1600
I am sorry for the inconvenience caused by this memory leak issue, our team is actually looking in to this.
In the meantime, could you please make sure that you have updated your graphic card drivers (I know that sounds always obvious) and try following troubleshooting step:
bwat47:
This regedit seems to have fixed it for me: http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/windows-8-338/awareness-thread-windows-8-memory-leak-ndu-sys-43090...
Been playing for like 2 hours now, totally normal mem usage before consistantly after an hour or so all my 16 gigs were used and everything lagged like crazy. Looks like it wasn't even AMD related in my case.
Open up "regedit" and go this key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Ndu Change the "Start" value to 4 (to disable it).
We will keep you informed as soon as we have some information.
Cheers
Basti
Disabling NDU doesn't fix this as is already mentioned in this thread. The reason it's too much too read is probably because EA is too late to respond to this.
To get ahead of other non-contributing EA posts, and to give you a short summary:
However, good to see that EA is finally looking into this. Hope you all had a peaceful weekend..
- Tried the BF4 in Win7 compatibility mode yesterday, didn't get a memory leak, yet. Somebody else who can falsify this as a possible temporary solution?
its works since bf3
@CowboysTR wrote:
- Tried the BF4 in Win7 compatibility mode yesterday, didn't get a memory leak, yet. Somebody else who can falsify this as a possible temporary solution?
its works since bf3
Well, this is BF4. Finding solutions is a deductive process, not just inductive.
I've read some reports about people on Win7 having the same symptoms. Don't know if the source of these symptoms is the same as with all these Win8 users. I don't have the time today to play BF4 long enough to trigger the memory leak (probably), but if there are users who have plenty of time to test today: could you please confirm or falsify the possibility of this Win7 compatibility solution?
Yeah the NDU fix did turn out to not fix it for me, I had gotten lucky after applying it and the bug happened to not trigger after a very long BF4 session, so I was pretty sure I had fixed it because I had typically run into it after around an hour or so. A few days later it happened to me again (I alt tabbed out of a game and noticed 8 gigs of ram in non-paged pool memory usage so I was able to reboot before it used all my ram that time). One thing I noticed is the leak seemed to happen pretty quickly, starting at the end of the match. I had alt tabbed out during the match, towards the end and the mem usage was normal. alt tabbed out again at the very end, and 8 gigs were in non-paged pool all the sudden, so it doesn't seem like a very "slow" leak. All the times it happened previous to that I noticed the lag started near the beginning of a new map, so I suspect the leak triggers around the end of a map, and the symptons can begin on the next map once it fiils your memory. It doesn't appear to be map specific, at least not that I can tell.
So far after applying the win7 compatibility fix (and in addition I'm using the 32-bit exe) I haven't triggered it again after another long session and a few subsequent shorter ones, but its very hard to tell with this bug since its so random, and a few others have said this hasn't worked for them (such as the post right above mine!). I'll try playing more today.
This bug is tricky because you can't really reproduce it "on demand", it just kind of happens randomly ☹️
Great community manager. Where's the update since your post on PAGE 17? Thanks a lot for helping support the community when EA says they haven't even heard of this when we go to support chat and hasn't acknowledged it anywhere on the patch threads and "investigating" lists.
If i put Windows 7 compatibility mode in bf4.exe I get Red Screen od Death after the round ends.
ps: I never got Red Screen od Death before
Let DICE workers rest this weekend to take an Ron barcelo with our money
