I need help or advice to help solve or improve a problem I have. Every time I play a steam game on my computer(mostly TF2) , I get in the top right corner, OS: Paged Pool Memory Low and sometimes results in the game crashing. I get this on every game exept Portal (obvious) and I have tried lowering the model texture and stuff in the options and that kind of helped stop the crashing but it still says that the paged pool memory is low and lags. Give me any advice besides a new graphics card. Note: This only happens on steam games and nothing else. Thank You.
How much ram do you have? And what is your page file set to?
To see your page file go to
ControlPanel>system>Advanced>Performance>Settings>Advanced>Virtual memory>Change
It says it’s 1438-5760MB with 101492MB available
How much ram do you have? (physical ram)
Where do I find the amount of ram?
Control Panel>System
In the General tab will be listed the amount of RAM currently installed and detected.
2.8 GHz, 960MB of Ram.
Accidental double post due to horrible connection
you’ll need to upgrade your RAM, I had this issue on my old computer.
Turning off the console on TF2 bought me more time, but the crash is only a matter of time, sorry to tell you
go back to your page file and change it to user controlled and set your page file to 1536MB
Any suggestions for the maximum page size or the ram? I dont speak computer yet.
Upgrade like a download or upgrade like physical?
wait, I’m guessing your on a laptop. Am I correct?
No, on a semi-old computer
ok, then your using an integrated video card (one that is built into the motherboard) The problem is that both your video card and you processor are competing for the available ram on your system. because of this your computer runs out of ram and it has to start loading large portions of the game into virtual ram.
Currently all we can do us bump up your virtual ram to 2x what is was. This is a Hack and it may not work (and it will severely hinder performance) What you need to do is get new ram as KMCA said. Also getting any type of dedicated GPU will also help your computer a ton. An older card like a nVidia7600/8600 will do wonders for your system.
Thanks guys. I am going to get a newer graphics card but I wanted to see if there is any other advice before I was going to get it. FireTime, thank you so much for supporting a cockroach in his time of need. I think I owe you a cookie.
hello firetime i have the same issue and i was wondering if you could help me?
hey firetime i have teh same problem and i was wondering if you could help me. i have added you on steam to get in contact. thanks
Double posting :fffuuu:
Please use the edit button next time
Page file won’t really help as said before. Writing to the hard drive (virtual memory) is a last option. Writing to the hard drive is so much slower than using physical RAM. Your best bet is to upgrade your RAM. It can be a very cheap fix depending on your memory type.