As this issue seems to have been resolved with new drivers I'll mark this thread as solved now.
>> if you think you have a fix that has worked, and you would like to really help everyone, then please test that your fix really has fixed it, don't "get it working" by making multiple changes and then saying you're never touching it again. If you really want to help, you need to then undo each change until it breaks again, and using a process of elimination work out exactly which change is the one that fixed (or helped) it.
Agreed. I am trying the registry tweak as it appears this has an effect on windows in general outside of BF4. There's no way the paging method can work for the reason you have suggested lol.
What I don't understand is that I have two friends that have an R9 290 and an R9 290X and they dont get the same issue as me (I have an R9 290). It's extremely frustrating, but I literally dont get this with any other game. That said, I doubt there's a game out there as complex as BF4 to be perfectly fair to it!
I'll let you know if the registry tweak works.
guy's I have win8.1, 64 bits and ATI card5870 and as many of you, constant crash on BF4, so far I was using Windows seven and had never any problem with BF3 with w7 32 bits and same HW, then I moved to win 8.1 64bits for the beta and while I had no single issue with the Beta when they release the game I have started to get constant memory leak and 32gb of meme occupied at 95% up to 99% when the leak occurs
I'm playing 4 to 5 hours a day and I'm getting in average 2 reboot during this time.
I I dont play BF4, I can work days and night, watching TV playing other games, no single problem
All of this to say I had already used the tweaks mentioned some posts before about the :
-ndu
-run game in 32 bits
-and increase swap space
And it did not fix at all the problem
I can only say it is related to the combination of :
using win 8.1, most likely 64 bit edition only, an ATI card and driver, in conjunction with BF4
What I also did is to test almost all ATI drivers from the fresh install windows 8.1 up to the newest beta xx (all the releases) and strangely the occurences of symptoms differs from release to release but at the end always either :
- an error warning on Direct X when computer RAM memory is filling up "E8OUTOFMEMORY Direct3D could not allocate sufficient memory to complete the call".....
- a BF4 stall when playing and then memory filled up, sometimes requires a hard reboot (push button), because no access anymore to the system
- a blue screen reboot by Mr gates himself....
- Or a failure at map swap
The one I found most stable is finally the one that comes with a fresh install of windows 8.1, not the latest drivers.....unfortunately
Just one thing come to my mind, I never played with graphic options of the game, may be one of those is buggy and cause the leak by not releasing memory above 4GB (Driver reserved space, I understood), I'll try it, we never know.
I keep you posted but I dont believe anymore in ATI and/or Dice capability or willingness to solve it
