Additionally, if you are using high graphics settings, make sure that your system can handle them. Otherwise, you will encounter this out-of-memory error. If you are encountering this error, ensure that you meet the minimum requirements for the game or application. This is because if the application demands 16GB of RAM and you only have 8GB, you will encounter this error message. Furthermore, having corrupted system files and running the game with high graphics settings could also result in out-of-memory error messages. After discussing the causes, let’s take a look at some of the best solutions that have actually been verified by the affected users on various different forums.
1. Restart Windows Explorer
Restarting the Windows Explorer is the same as restarting the PC. Restarting Windows Explorer restarts the background services and reloads the data from the Memory (RAM), which might fix the out of memory error. To do so, follow the steps:
2. Increase Virtual Memory
Virtual Memory is part of an SSD or Hard Disk that acts like a system memory if the application or game runs out of memory. It can be allocated from the disk, whether it is a hard disk, SSD, or NVMe. So if the application runs out of memory, increasing virtual memory can help fix this error. To do so, follow the steps:
3. Run sfc /scannow
The out of memory error also occurs due to corruption in the system files. Corrupted files can be repaired by running the SFC (System File Checker). It is a command line utility that scans the protected system files and restores the corrupted files from the cached folder located in the %WinDir%\System32\dllcache.
4. Close irrelevant background applications
If there are many applications running in the background without any reason, then you should close all the irrelevant applications because they consume an excessive amount of memory usage, causing your main application to run out of memory. Therefore, make sure to close all the idle applications to free up the RAM by using the following steps:
5. Reduce the Graphics Settings
Reducing the graphics settings will reduce memory consumption, which means the application or game might not get run out of memory if you reduce the graphics settings. We also recommend reducing the video resolution. Once you have done that, run the game or application to see whether the error is fixed or not.
6. Update Graphics Driver
Sometimes outdated graphics driver also leads to the out-of-memory error message, which means you should have an updated graphics driver to experience smooth gameplay. So if you don’t update your graphics driver, make sure to do that by following the steps: If you followed all the steps and none of the methods have worked for you. In this case, we recommend increasing physical memory according to the application requirement. You can also try reinstalling the application, as the error might be causing due to a problem with the application files. So make sure to reinstall the application before increasing the physical memory.
