"Not enough Memory" - crashes, freezes and more

[mbox_bob]

If you have replaced the GPU, you will need to create a new Window Layout in ISBoxer, as the device references will have changed and this can have a detrimental performance impact when Windows attempts to write to a device which is no longer there. Use the Window Layout Wizard, and create a New layout (don't choose one which says (existing)) from the drop down. If it is not the issue, you can always swap back to your old layout.

Either that or it is paging to disk a lot due to lack of ram, but then some basic monitoring would show up the lack of ram quite easily and it doesn't really gel with what you say about swapping graphics cards.

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heh, after re-reading your original post, I see you say you've tried a fresh profile. Well, that just makes it really weird then, and perhaps you should be getting a compatibility diagnostic instead. http://isboxer.com/wiki/Diagnostics

[WarcraftPundit]

If you have replaced the GPU, you will need to create a new Window Layout in ISBoxer, as the device references will have changed and this can have a detrimental performance impact when Windows attempts to write to a device which is no longer there. Use the Window Layout Wizard, and create a New layout (don't choose one which says (existing)) from the drop down. If it is not the issue, you can always swap back to your old layout.

Either that or it is paging to disk a lot due to lack of ram, but then some basic monitoring would show up the lack of ram quite easily and it doesn't really gel with what you say about swapping graphics cards.

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heh, after re-reading your original post, I see you say you've tried a fresh profile. Well, that just makes it really weird then, and perhaps you should be getting a compatibility diagnostic instead. http://isboxer.com/wiki/Diagnostics

Thanks for taking the time to answer and try to help. I appreciate it. I have indeed tried all new layouts, profiles and so on. I am also monitoring the memory usage with Open Hardware monitor.

As for the compatibility diagnostics, I can get that but I cannot get crash dumps when it freezes. Until the one WoW client which freezes is terminated the system is literally unusable. I went through all the jagged mouse movement, waiting for the screen to redraw, watching the spinning balls and all that long enough to get through all the motions needed to finally try and get the crash dump from ISBoxer and it failed. That process (no joke) took over 45 minutes with as slow as everything was running. That is why when it does this the only real option is to have the hardware reset with a power cycle and reboot the system.

Yes this is very strange. Like I mentioned too it works very well, just with reduced FPS and such, with the old GPU. It also works with the new GPU if I do not run ISBoxer, that is five clients will all run for as long as I want.

In Open Hardware Monitor it never shows more than about 60% of memory usage. Here are some screen shots of that and task manager whilst all five clients have been running for a while: https://imgur.com/a/rh7pbi5



and finally the GPU in task manager where I notice something interesting but of unknown relevance. It says the GPU has 10GB of shared memory. I assume this means in addition to it's 8GB of VRAM(?) but I don't see that in the monitoring of the RAM usage anywhere. It only shows a small percentage of it in use so maybe it is reserved or potentially allocated if needed?