I have a strange issue. out of 12GB of ram, 94% is pegged but it shows no process taking it up, it happens about 20 minutes into game and it gets really choppy. BF4 seems to be eating it up but I'm not sure for what.. When going into task manager, it won't show a single program taking the memory.. it's leaking and ruining my game!
Windows 8.1
Radeon 6970
Latest Beta drivers (tried/trying them all)
12gb RAM
Anyone else having this kind of issue?
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
I used to get 90FPS on medium in 64slots server in BF4 Beta. BF4 retail also running same, but suddnly today im getting 7-30-60-70FPS it keeps changing.
Also, I can see its PAGE POOL issue. I cant eveb ALT TAB now. Game surly havign memory leaks.
My PC Spec:
AMD FX 8350 processor
ASUS M5A97 R2.0 Mobo
AMD HD 6870
8GB DDR3 1600 Corsair vengence RAM
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..
I have AMD 965 x4 BE
ATI (AMD) 6970
ram 4GB (upgraded to 8GB
@Gatmain wrote:Then click the me too button.. Shows more people need help with the same issue, easily for the mods etc.. That's what its there for haha.
But yeah, in repsonse to this thread, I get this too.. It's utterly frustrating and borderline criminal. It brings my whole system to a halt, then doesn't even release the memory when end the BF4 process.. it still says 98% is in use. From 12gb.
Memory leak it is, spawned from BF4 it might not be, I've heard apparently some ATI drivers have done similar things - either way it only happens in BF4 so it must be that, triggering the leak.
I've also noticed most of the people I've seen reporting this issue are running these specs:
ATI 6950
Athlon x2 955
~12gb ram
This is also my setup. This combination is very popular because it was good bang for buck, but this needs fixing. It's preventing me playing more than 30 minutes and makes me reboot my computer each time it happens. Completely annoying.
) same problem
@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?
Installed windows 8.1 yesterday and it was the same as when i used windows 8
Tried 32bit and windows 7 compatibility still had the issue gonna try 64bit and see if it makes any difference but i doubt it
Usually what happens is i play 2 maps (if it dont crash lol) and when it starts loading the third map the non paged pool will start filling up until it reaches 95%, closing the game will stop it
And when i have booted up my windows 7 i dont get the memory leak
Specs
AMD Phenom II 1055T @ 3.2GHz
HD6950
6GB DDR3 RAM
13.11 beta8 Drivers
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 ☹️
