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Anno SeriesWarning: out of memory(4 posts)(4 posts)
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Posted January 26, 2016
In one of the 'Venice' patches a warning was inserted that will inform you when the PC is running low of RAM. Now I have a PC with 8 GB RAM and GeForce 960 with 2 GB, visual design and desktop design are de-activated in the exe compatibility settings, but the warning still appears.
When I switch to the desktop via Alt+Tab, 'Cacheman' shows more than 5 GB of free RAM.
So: can this warning be ignored; and why is it still issued on an 'oversized' PC?

Thank you.
Posted January 26, 2016
short answer: do not ignore this warning - save your game - end anno and restart it.
some time after this warning anno will crash for shure.
Posted January 28, 2016
I get this error too from time to time and nothing bad happens at all. which is weird.
no crashes.
nothing.
Posted April 02, 2016
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pereh: In one of the 'Venice' patches a warning was inserted that will inform you when the PC is running low of RAM. Now I have a PC with 8 GB RAM and GeForce 960 with 2 GB, visual design and desktop design are de-activated in the exe compatibility settings, but the warning still appears.
When I switch to the desktop via Alt+Tab, 'Cacheman' shows more than 5 GB of free RAM.
So: can this warning be ignored; and why is it still issued on an 'oversized' PC?

Thank you.
Anno is a 32 bit game, so it cannot address more than 2 GB of memory (or 4GB depending on platform, not sure what the limit on windows is, different platforms reserve heap vs stack and other memory regions in the address space in a way that limits heap space to 2 GB or even less.). So regardless of how much ram you have, the warning might be about getting close to the 2 GB limit, and that's virtual memory, which includes actual ram used by program plus any memory that has been paged out, and any memory that has been allocated but yet not touched. I believe this might be same as the "commit size" which you can find as optional column in task manager.
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