Re: BF4 PC Memory leaking? 94% Memory usage with 12GB

@porkysatan

You have no idea what you are talking about. You absolutely do not need virtualization to run 32-bit processes on a 64-bit os. an x86_64 processor can natively run 32-bit code, and all the 32-bit compatibility stuff in windows is handled by a windows subsystem called WOW64, there is no virtualization involved.

And this doesn't have anything to do with the memory leak anyway.

@porkysatan

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Virtualization options in the BIOS enable the CPU's hardware virtualization flags for Intel VT. 

http://ark.intel.com/products/virtualizationtechnology

This is hardware emulation for virtualization applications such as VMWare and XEN. Get a clue.

@bwat47 - I believe I have found a temporary solution. Checking "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" combined with Win 8 compatibility mode.

Don't ask me why that should prevent the memory leak but haven't had one in about the last 18hrs of play. Logged a total of around 110hrs ingame as of tonight.

I'm not saying it's a fix but it's certianly held it at bay more. Still up around 12th for Sniper kills in Aussie, now to get back up to 5th...

It worked all fine for me... till yesterday, i dont know why, but i didnt change anything on my system and now iam getting a Windows popup after 15-20min playing BF4... telling me, Windows wants to shutdown BF4 to get memory back... but on task manager total memory is at 4GB, wth?

My Setup is...

Windows 8.1

GTX 770M (yeah its a Laptop... Schenker P503)

i7 4200 4 cores

16GB(ohh yeah... alot, should be enough i thought for the most stuff)

Fixing Problemes and making new ones is really awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its really annoying to get moved to the desktop while you play BF4 and cant avoid it!!!!

bf4.exe

- Compatibility Win 8 ( I have Win 8.1 x64 PRO )

- Run as Administrator

Fix the memory leak for me.

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@Cucobr wrote:

bf4.exe

- Compatibility Win 8 ( I have Win 8.1 x64 PRO )

- Run as Administrator

Fix the memory leak for me.

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^This is the fix.

A big 'thank you' to EA and Dice for never helping at all, and leaving it up to the community to find out how to fix it themselves.

I always enjoy playing the 'fixing the game' game.

Seriously, I fully powered off the machine (not just reboot) and it stayed at same memory usage level as when BF4 crashed out to desktop.  Being in the IT field for over 20 years I know this sound highly improbable. It was as if the computer was going to sleep and not actually rebooting. 

I ended up manually uninstalling the C++ 2012 Runtime verison installed by the video drivers.  I then uninstalled the video drivers as well.  I shutdown and then installed the 13.11 Beta8 drivers.  I figured I would go back to them since I didn't have the problem I mentioned with stuffed memory on reboot until Beta9 drivers and the last update. 

Game can sometimes go about 30 minutes, a few maps before memory leak.  However, maps like Dam and Flood seem to be a given that it will memory leak by the time the map changes over.

The next time I play and get the leak I'll post the non-paged pool.  Right now with things idle it is at 396MB Paged Pool / 99.9MB Non-Paged Pooled.  Memory is still steady at 18% utilization.

Running BF4(x64) in windows 8 compatibility mode seems to do the trick. Now if only AMD would do something about it.

I'm using a 6970 on windows 8.1.

Using Catalyst13.11 Beta8 drivers.  Memory leak occured mid-game about 30 minutes into play. When the game stopped and I was looking at the battlelog screen, I recorded my memory/page use.

In use 5.8GB / Available 2.2GB
Committed 6.7/20.0GB
Cached 944MB
Paged pool 526MB
Non-Paged pool 4.6GB

Previously with 13.11 Beta9 drivers it would get up to 90%+ memory utilization and the whole machine would slow to a grind.  However, with Beta8 drivers it appears the leak isn't absorbing as much of the memory.  With a sliver of memory left and the computer still responsive, I joined a game to see what would happen and to my suprise the game ran flawlessly for a couple hours.  I exited the game under my own will, so it was nice to have a couple hours of play without issue. 

In use 5.6GB / Available 2.4GB

Committed 6.6/20.0GB

Cached 940MB

Paged pool 527MB

Non-Paged pool 4.5GB

A quick reboot and the memory is freed up. I can live with one memory leak crash to the desktop over the span of about 3 hours.

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@Cucobr wrote:

bf4.exe

- Compatibility Win 8 ( I have Win 8.1 x64 PRO )

- Run as Administrator

Fix the memory leak for me.

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Unfortuantely that does nothing here. Also the scaling change did nothing.

Trying Win 7 mode next. Still extremely frustrated.

It does seem to happen a bit less if I'm playing Domination and not something with tons of vehicles and explosions. Not sure if that's anecdotal, or a trend.

Swapped out the 6xxx card for a 290x. No more problems...except the usual crashes that everyone else gets...sigh. 

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@TheMannishBoy wrote:

Unfortuantely that does nothing here. Also the scaling change did nothing.

Trying Win 7 mode next. Still extremely frustrated.

It does seem to happen a bit less if I'm playing Domination and not something with tons of vehicles and explosions. Not sure if that's anecdotal, or a trend.

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Win 7 compatibility mode does nothing, either.

Necesitamos alguna explicacion.

Any updates? Anyone who follows it closely?

I am but there are still no fixes or updates from EA/DICE. A community guy from EA posted on around page 10 that they are looking into it but since then nothing new^^

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@Wysiwyg77 wrote:

Swapped out the 6xxx card for a 290x. No more problems...except the usual crashes that everyone else gets...sigh. 

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Nice to know as i will get a R9 270X soon i think.^^

chirp chirp....

im about done with Dice/EA if they dont address this.

I tweeted the main @battlefield account and the community manager @Vincent0K with a link to this 50 page thread, asking for an update. Don't really expect them to respond with anything useful, but maybe they can at least rattle something around and get them to realize @ DICE it's still a critical issue for a lot of us.

@ AskEASupport  also answers questions

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@jijaja wrote:

@ AskEASupport  also answers questions

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Got no response from the other two.

I wonder if this is a BF4 problem, or an AMD problem. Or a mixture.

I think I'd be much less frustrated if we'd hear back from somebody that they're working on it. I know there's a client patch coming soon, but we have no idea if they're even addressing it.

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@TheMannishBoy wrote:

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@jijaja wrote:

@ AskEASupport  also answers questions

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Got no response from the other two.

I wonder if this is a BF4 problem, or an AMD problem. Or a mixture.

I think I'd be much less frustrated if we'd hear back from somebody that they're working on it. I know there's a client patch coming soon, but we have no idea if they're even addressing it.

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Seems to be a mixture of both. AMD have stated they know about the issue and it's their number one bug to solve. Which is apparently coming in a patch in early December. Kind of a slow reaction time, but then I guess it's a pretty annoying bug to fix...

BTW For those looking for a temporary fix for Win 8.1 users:

I run the game with Compatibility mode enabled for Win 8 as well as the "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" checked.

Haven't had a leak since I did that. Just played for around 2hrs straight, though I have 120hrs racked up with the last 20 or so with those settings and no memory leaks.

same issue... the weird thing on like 5% of servers it ain't happening..

tried the driver update didnt work.

:catsad:

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@kaerar wrote:

BTW For those looking for a temporary fix for Win 8.1 users:

I run the game with Compatibility mode enabled for Win 8 as well as the "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" checked.

Haven't had a leak since I did that. Just played for around 2hrs straight, though I have 120hrs racked up with the last 20 or so with those settings and no memory leaks.

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Unfortuantely, that does nothing for me. Hopefully others will have better luck.

lol my friend has 32G RAM and when it happens 31GB RAM in use. only restart pc cleans it.