I would do a clean install, something may be corrupt.
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Try a wow file checker? Er I forget the name but you can access it from the bnet launcher.
Also you can upgrade your Windows 8.1 to 10 for free if you want.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/you-can-still-upgrade-to-windows-10-for-free-heres-how/
If you don’t know your Win 8.1 key you can use a free program like belarc advisor that tells you it.
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Oh I just saw windows 8.
I have been using Windows 10 for quite a while now, so I can’t speak for how well it does.
I had this thought also that Windows 10 was lighter on CPU/Memory overhead, but I could be wrong.
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I will try that feature, Canadiana. I think it is called Scan and Repair, I just checked. If that doesn’t work, I will try a full reinstall like Lily suggested. I will also look into the memory test Salhezra mentioned.
Thank you everyone for your advice and time. Very much appreciate it!
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Just FYI; is it Okay? Yes it will work but you won’t run in dual channel. Not the end of the world just not ideal. If it really was a RAM issue adding more RAM is always better. Personally I would do a clean install (with no add-ons) and use startup or ccleaner (made by the same guys as speccy) to make sure the only programs that run are windows & security related. If I had no issues then I would download add-ons.
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Yeah agree, troubleshoot first before throwing money at it. I don’t think capacity is an issue; lots of folks play this game on entry level laptops and older systems which almost certainly are only 8gb and they are fine.
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Okay this will be my plan of action. If all that doesnt work I will pick up an inexpensive stick of RAM and see if that does the trick. If nothing works, then I guess it is the universe telling me to get off the computer and read a book or take a walk haha.
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nothing wrong with expanding your mind and getting fresh air. Is WoW the only game you play or does the error occur with other games?
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WoW is mostly the only game I play. A few months ago I played some of the older Call of Duty series. The newer ones my computer wouldnt be able to handle. I think a couple of times I got that low memory error but I honestly can’t remember for sure.
4770 still has some gas left in the tank, if paired with a newer graphics card. Maybe a fresh install of windows and games could get you some more life out of it.
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Fingers crossed!
I have to go offline for now but thanks again for everyones time, patience and help. Hope you all have a great day!
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Good luck, sorry we couldn’t help you get it totally fixed.
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I have a hard time believing it’s hardware related. I was playing on a Phenom II and an R9 380 with 8g of RAM unless he has a bad stick.
Kind of wondering if it’s not Windows 8 if it’s happening on other games.
Turn your Virtual Memory back on. The only time that error should ever come up is if you’ve nearly exhausted every available resource, but if you deny it the use of a swapfile on the harddrive it will put it in RAM instead. This fills up quickly, especially if you’re running 32-bit programs in a 64-bit OS, and the error will come up (along with instability and incompatibility).
Disabling Virtual Memory has never been a good idea for anything more than a diagnostic step or to defragment your swap file. Since it’s a terrible diagnostic step as it’s more likely to cause problems than solve them, and modern Windows OSs can defragment outside of the OS if you want to do the swap file, it’s completely redundant.
No, not having it won’t make your computer run better - unless you’re running Windows 3.11 on a 386. All it will do is cause problems. If you’re worried about space just make it small (a 256mb swap file works significantly better than none), but otherwise pick a drive for it to go on and let the OS manage it.
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Thanks for the suggestion. Is there an easy way to see if mine is turned off? I’m not very computer literate and maybe I turned it off somehow.
Unless you intentionally did it, it is unlikely anything would have done that on its own.
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True enough, but there’s a lot of guides which still errantly suggest doing it, and doubtless automated scripts which do the same. By the OP’s admission they’re not 100% literate so they may have just done it assuming the advice was good.
Hit [Win]+[Pause] to bring up the About setting window. Then click Advanced system settings - I don’t recall which panel Win8.1 uses any more so it will be either on left or on the right. Now Settings in the Performance section, Advanced tab, and finally Change….
That window shows your virtual memory settings. Ideally it should just have the checkbox up the top ticked, but if it doesn’t check to make sure at least one of your drives (if you have more than one) shows something other than “None”.
Thanks for the instructions. I checked and I have 512mb.
Conventional wisdom is 1x-1.5x RAM.
That’s 8-12gb, but others say 1-2gb is fine.
IDK what mine is…it’s at automatic. Apparently W10 does this on its own well enough that I’ve never had to check it. So I can’t speak for W8.1.
It could be worth increasing that, then. Perhaps to a few gigabytes. Or just letting the system manage it on the drive/s of your choosing.
Another one of those out-dated bits of information based on the Windows 3.x days - and even back then it wasn’t really accurate. After all, if you’ve got less physical memory then surely you’re going to need more virtual memory to accomplish the same amount!
The argument stems from a system having less memory likely not being powerful enough to handle the extra virtual memory load. And it has persisted for reasons completely beyond my understanding. I mean, we don’t even try to install Win32S or WinG any more, which was also conventional wisdom at the time.
Every Windows since NT5 (ie 2000) has been able to manage it on its own. It’s been 20 years since most anyone has had a real reason to change anything on that page, yet guides still exist telling people otherwise…
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