Critical Error - Application ran out of memory when requesting [...]

[liquidtroll]

<p>I never had problems with eq2 (except those nasty ati memoryleaks a couple of years ago). Then Age of Discovery was released. Since then im crashing 99% when im zoning into my guildhall. I can only access it when its a fresh start of the game.</p><p>Since AoD i visited my guildhall like maybe 6 (SIX!) times. I outsourced most important things. Im using othmir broker, bank and mender. im using a published house for all my twinks, so they can port into the house to craft and use the portal images to travel.</p><p>And its ANNOYING AS HELL! Esp. if you have to craft adornments etc for your twinks. Esp^2 if you need to travel to open kael to buy runes.</p><p>When i have to zone often, like skyshrine accessquest, it takes longer and longer to load the zones. If its finally loaded, and my group isnt asleep already, the game runs absolutely fine.</p><p>So either PLEASE fix this damnit error or let me place druidring/portal, trainingdummies, broker, bank etc into my house.</p><p>Critical ErrorApplication ran out of memory when requesting 1398368 bytes (limit: 1535 MB, current: 1404 MB)</p><p>Sometimes this Error gets spammed up to 9 times on the screen and it takes AGES for eq2 to shut down completely. Most of the time i terminate it via Taskmanager, so my small blood vessels arent bursting and my temples arent exploding. I just waste too much time with this stupid bug.</p><p>I really was hoping Skyshrine would fix this, but it just happend again.</p><p>The only thing that changed was the game --> AoD. PC is all the same, clean and free of malware like always. Everything else runs perfect.</p>

[The_Cheeseman]

<p>I'd just like to chime-in and say that the exact same thing has been happening to me. Pretty much everything said in the above post also applies in my case. It got better for a short time after a certain patch a while back, but now that GU63 has launched, I can't seem to run the client for more than 20min without crashing. Even with my graphics settings at absolute minimum, I still get the 6-9 out of memory errors when I try to go to my guild hall.</p><p>I've been playing EQ2 since launch day and I am very loyal to my friends, but I can't keep dealing with this. The client is far too unstable right now for me to be able to accomplish anything in the game.</p>

[troodon]

<p>I get this error as well in Freeport, on a computer which has until now run the game fine since launch. </p>

[Kilotu]

<p>Just like liquidtroll I'm getting the same application our of memory error whenever I try to log in now. I have a ticket submitted, but like always not response from CS. Last time I submitted a ticket it took 5 days to get a response, and I had to redownload the full 14 gigs of game content to get things working again!!! I usually only got this error when I zoned a few times, so it was more of an annoyance. Now I can't log in at all. I've tried 2 different characters with the same results. Everytime I log in it loads completely and then proceeds to completely crash. I passed up furious about 6 crashes ago, and am now moving into the realm of completely beside myself. I did manage to get into character select and buy station cash on the triple station cash day which was 4/28/12, but now I can't get in to use it. Actually I can't get in to play whatsoever. Does it seem strange to anyone else that when it comes to giving SOE money things work alright but when it comes to actually playing the game or using the things we paid for everything goes to hell? I noticed that the first post in this thread was on 4/20/12 and here it is 4/29/12 and still no response from a gm (oh, big surprise there)? Hey SOE here's a novel idea...FIX THE FREAKIN' BUGS!!!</p>

[Daalilama]

<p>Been having these issues since AoD went live I have yet to use my own guild hall(T2) since then and use a friends guild hall (T1) but even there I am crashing more and more....my guess is coding quality control went out the window especially with how unfinished AoD was but at least we can be told the problem is on our end or our pc is too old or the moon is out of phase, whatever but not the truth...news flash more and more people that hadnt had issues like this with AoD on live have begun to run into these issues more and more...strange they have top of line rigs to run this game....so all I can say to the devs and the TSR people............</p><p><span style="font-size: large;">FIX THE DAMM CODING ISSUE NOW NOT LATER NOT AFTER MORE USELESS UPDATES FOR DUNGEON FINDER OR MAKER BUT NOW!</span></p>

[Galldora]

<p>This is the same problem I was having more than a year ago.  I realize my solution would not work for lots of players, but the problem was solved when I got a new, faster computer with more RAM.  I went from an Intel quad core 2.66GHZ processor, Geforce 9800GT card and 4gigs RAM to an Intel I5-680 duo core 3.60GHZ processor, Evga NVIDIA GTX470 card and 8gigs of RAM, and the game runs very well indeed -- as it sure as heck should, of course, with that much computing power.  In fact, I can run two instances on this one computer at balanced quality or one instance at extreme quality, with no discernable lag and no out-of-memory crashes.  </p><p>Prior to getting the new machine, I used to watch my task manager as the memory demand built up and up.  Sometimes, simply minimizing the game would flush out a lot of tied-up memory, and if I minimized prior to it reaching a critical level, I could avoid a crash.  Minimizing immediately prior to zoning proved to be quite helpful in many instances.  If you haven't tried that, you might see if it works for you.  If you are not able to log in at all because you immediately get an OOM crash, do you perhaps have a character who is in a location where the graphics are less demanding?  You might be able to log that character in, turn your settings way down -- maybe start out with extreme performance -- and then try logging in the character who can't get into the game.  If you have an empty character slot, you could even make a new, temporary character in order to get into the game and adjust the settings -- say, if all of your characters are in your guild hall and that's where you can't log in.</p><p>Believe me, I feel your pain.  Merely seeing the subject line on this topic made me shudder a bit, remembering what that was like. Good luck, and I hope one of these suggestions helps, even just a tiny bit.</p>

[Kilotu]

<p><cite>Galldora wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>Prior to getting the new machine, I used to watch my task manager as the memory demand built up and up.  Sometimes, simply minimizing the game would flush out a lot of tied-up memory, and if I minimized prior to it reaching a critical level, I could avoid a crash.  Minimizing immediately prior to zoning proved to be quite helpful in many instances.  If you haven't tried that, you might see if it works for you.  If you are not able to log in at all because you immediately get an OOM crash, do you perhaps have a character who is in a location where the graphics are less demanding?  You might be able to log that character in, turn your settings way down -- maybe start out with extreme performance -- and then try logging in the character who can't get into the game.  If you have an empty character slot, you could even make a new, temporary character in order to get into the game and adjust the settings -- say, if all of your characters are in your guild hall and that's where you can't log in.<p>Believe me, I feel your pain.  Merely seeing the subject line on this topic made me shudder a bit, remembering what that was like. Good luck, and I hope one of these suggestions helps, even just a tiny bit.</p></blockquote><p>Holy Crap!!! It worked!!! For the first time in at least 3 days now (with no answer from CS and no repsonse in sight) I figured I'd try the minimize trick. And it worked perfectly!!! Galldora I can't thank you enough for this suggestion. Although I did crash after trying to zone to much (since SOE still hasn't addressed this issue yet) the point is I was FINALLY able to get in for a couple hours and play. This was an idea I must admit I probably would have never thought of. I hope it works for others as well as it worked for me.</p><p>To SOE...I find it rather strange that I got better support, albeit not planned but it still worked, from another user than I do from you. In a word - Pathetic.</p>

[Vifarc]

<p><cite>Galldora wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>turn your settings way down -- maybe start out with extreme performance -- and then try logging in the character who can't get into the game.</blockquote><p>It does no longer work. I CAN NO LONGER PLAY THE GAME. Sony does not want my money.</p>

[VikodiN]

<p><span style="color: #00ffff;">I got this issue for the first time a few days ago ... Hasn't happened since.  I do usually minimize at least once on most days I play so they may be the reason I don't get this issue.</span></p>

[Mysstie]

<p>One thing you may want to do is manually close LaunchPad before starting the game. Do not click Play on it. Just run EverQuest2.exe manually. Also, you might want to delete the <strong>logincache-us</strong> and <strong>cache</strong> directories before starting the game, especially if you crashed with a OOM error. I think some of the stuff gets corrupted in there when a crash happens. I used the following <strong>EQII.bat</strong> batch file to start the game each time (of course, your actual install directory is probably different): <span style="font-family: courier new,courier;">cd "C:GamesEverQuest II" rmdir /s /q logincache-us rmdir /s /q cache start EverQuest2.exe </span> I still start the game this way on my new computer out of habit which has Windows 7 Pro 64bit w/8Gigs. My old system was a P4-2.4GHz with 1.5 Gigs of RAM running Windows XP where I got OOM errors going into Houses and GHs many times.</p>

[Razorlan]

I haven't been experiencing this issue on my monk in Greater Faydark, or on my baby paladin in New Halas. However, today for the first time in quite a while, I was trying to play on my shadow knight in Neriak. I was trying to arrange items in my house in Neriak and in my bank vault. I found myself experiencing the "out of memory" error and accompanying crash every half hour or so.

[Mageman]

<p>i have the same problem but apparently my limit is 737MB, is there a way to increase the limit with out opening up my computer to add more sticks of ram? right now i only last at most 35 min or less in game before it chashes. is there a way to increase virtua memory?</p>

[quiarrah]

<p>Same thing happens to me on Splitpaw . . .sometimes I can play through one. . .but then another pops up and then another. . .and then I get kicked. I got the blue screen of death a couple of times too.</p><p>Is there a misplace comma in some code somewhere that is messing us up? Has to be on your end cause not everyone can be getting the same errors if it's not.</p><p>This needs to be fixed. . . . fast.</p>

[Zabjade]

<p><span style="color: #00cc00;">I've blue-screened as well. had to have my dad take a look and get my system back up because soemthing was corrupted a couple of times. </span></p>

[Azzab]

<p>Hi, I had this problem and I have fixed it.  Not sure if this will apply to you or help you, but here it is.  </p><p>My new PC has an Nvidia GeForce GTX 555 graphics card.  Immediately I had problems with EQ2, the same message as you.</p><p>I submitted a support ticket to SOE, this was their reply: "<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The video device, Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000, may lack the raw power to start Everquest II. "</span></p><p>Their reply initially did not make sense - because my PC has a GeForce GTX 555 GPU.  Then another game told me the PC could not play because it only had 64Mb VRAM.  So the penny dropped.</p><p>There is a crappy inbuilt Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU in the PC (with only 64MB VRAM).   EQ2 was automatically selecting the Intel 4000 as the GPU, not the GeForce.  That was causing it to crash with the same error message you were getting.</p><p>To fix it, I used the Nvidia control panel, select 3D settings, manage 3D settings, then under CUDA-GPUs, I forced it to the GeForce GPU.  Then, to be sure, I added EQ2.exe under the program settings tab and made sure it was forced to use the GeForce as well.</p><p>Another issue was that the new PC only has Directx 11, and EQ2 uses 9.  As you can run both at the same time, I downloaded Directx9.</p><p>Hope this helps</p>

[Idalo]

<p>Hi guys, have been having the same problem and it is very frustrating... have found these instructions and it has been running smoothly so far (on Win 7 here, no idea if it works for Vista or XP):</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Just copy-pasting this, all credit and kudos to deadcrickets2 (the guy gives more useful support than the SOE employees do) as it worked for me and solved the crashing;</span>You will run into this condition while running EverQuest 2 on either Vista or Windows 7 and you attempt to use Maximum textures. This is due to Windows limiting application memory to 2 GB of RAM.How to fix:Click on the Start menu, type in cmd.exe. Right click on cmd.exe and click Run as Administrator. Once the command window pops up type in bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVA 3072 and press enter. Restart your computer.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">On Windows XP the fix from Microsoft is:Right-click My Computer and select Properties. The System Properties dialog box will appear.Click the Advanced tab.In the Startup and Recovery area, click Settings. The Startup and Recovery dialog box will appear.In the System startup area, click Edit. This will open the Windows boot.ini file in Notepad.In the [Operating Systems] section, add the following switches to the end of the startup line that includes the /fastdetect switch: /3GBSave the changes and close Notepad.Click OK two times to close the open dialog boxes, and then restart the computer for the change to take effect.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">(Credit to Shizuma, whose post showed up via Google)</p><p>I hope this helps <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Joshy2004]

<p>I have been haveing this problem for a while after about 20 or less of playing, mostly just crafting, anyway I get that the application ran out of memory I have 4 GB of physical memory and am useing a 64 bit platform on a 64 bit machine. I thought that 4GB would be sufecient to run EQ2 the game runs fine on my laptop with the same 4 GB of memory and 64 bit platform on 64 bit machine. Im not sure what I need to provide to help locate what is going on. Since I can run the game fine on my laptop. Please help me, I love to play EQ2 but this is becoming a pain. I dont want to use the laptop since the graphics are a bit choppy but I never run out of physical memory. I use windows 7 and have a system that is not a gaming system but still meets the minimum at least. As does my laptop, but my laptop runs the game like I said. I figure there has to be something going on with the desktop machine. It has been going on since about April of this year and I bought the machine in Feb. of this year.</p>