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Originally Posted by gehrig38
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It's not going to be a hard disk memory error, it'll be that your pagefile is running out of room to operate. Your C: drive, which is going to be where Windows puts the pagefile unless you tell it otherwise, looks very, very low. The pagefile is basically what your computer uses when it runs out of RAM to use, and ironically (I mean, it's not ironic at all; it's just how computers work, but it feels ironic) the more RAM you have, the more space you need to keep open for that pagefile. Generally speaking you want to keep about double your RAM as your pagefile size. It makes some sense that OOTP in particular would die when you run out, since OOTP is very memory intensive, especially when loading up a massive league with a long, long history.
My recommendations here:
1. If you can, and you probably can, free up space on your C: drive by moving programs you've installed on it from there to D: or E:.
1a. If your C: drive is an SSD, which seems to be the industry standard nowadays, you really only want your OS on there plus the pagefile. Windows will try to default to add, like, everything else there, and sometimes you do have to have programs that sit on both C: and another drive (Visual Studio is kind of notorious for this) but basically the only other situation you'd ever want to put an entire program on your C: drive if you're running from an SSD is if you have a graphics-intensive game that you want to get high performance from.
2. If, after moving programs, you still don't have enough room.... change the location of your Users folders to D: or E: and move all the files inside over there. Those folders can eat up a *ton* of space. This is kind of a pain in the ass to do though so I don't recommend doing it first, not if you've got, like, some 20GB game you can offload from your C: drive first.
3. If all else fails - and I do *not* recommend doing this if your C: drive is an SSD - change the location of your pagefile to D: or E: or at least add D: or E: as potential locations for it. If you have an SSD, it runs a lot faster than a standard hard drive and running your pagefile on anything other than your SSD is going to make everything go a *lot* slower.
Anyway, here are the instructions on how to do step 3:
https://www.geeksinphoenix.com/blog/...al-memory.aspx
And while I'm at it, step 2:
https://www.dummies.com/computers/op...in-windows-10/
IIRC, the last time I did this on a computer I had to manually transfer a lot of files from my C: to my D: drive as well - if memory serves, your computer will begin to use that other drive *next*. That being said, if it takes several minutes (or longer, depending on how full that folder is) to do this, your computer is probably doing all the work of transferring the user folders over for you.
To the dev team: is there a sticky with recommendations like this on it?