Critical Error Occurred - Out of memory crash

• Why this happens
• How this happens
• How to resolve this issue
• AT YOUR OWN RISK - Alternative Solutions

Why this happens

World of Warships uses quite a bit of your Volatile memory, commonly called RAM.

• x86 OS (Windows XP 32bit, Windows Vista 32bit, Windows 7 32bit), have a maximum allowed virtual address space for an application of 2 GB RAM.
• x64 OS have a maximum allowed virtual address space for an application of 4 GB RAM.

How this happens

1. You start the game and it loads from your Hard Drive to your RAM.
2. You play a few battles and your RAM starts filling up.
3. Your Computer runs out of free RAM space and the game crashes.
   • About: Windows and Memory limits
4. An error looking like the image below appears.
   

   

How to resolve this issue

1. Verify your computer meets the minimum requirements. See amount of RAM required.
2. Run the game in safe mode, with no mods.
3. Should your computer have installed more than 3GB of RAM, you may want to consider an OS upgrade to x64
   • x86 / 32 bits OS can only allocate 2GB of RAM per active application. x64 can allocate 4GB.
   • Refer to an IT Specialist before upgrading your OS.

AT YOUR OWN RISK - Alternative Solutions

Increasing the virtual address space for the process on Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 x86

1. Run command line with administrator privileges:
   • Open Start menu and type cmd
   • Right click on the appeared cmd icon
   • Choose "Run as administrator".
2. Enter the following command in command line window:
   • bcdedit /set increaseuserva 3072
3. Reboot your computer.

Verify increase of virtual address space

1. Run command line with administrator privileges:
   • Open Start menu and type cmd,
   • Right click on the appeared cmd icon
   • Choose "Run as administrator".
2. Enter the following command in command line window:
   • bcdedit /enum | find "increaseuserva"
3. If optimization flag exists you will be provided the following output:
   • increaseuserva 3072

Rollback increase of virtual address space

1. Run command line with administrator privileges:
   • Open Start menu and type cmd,
   • Right click on the appeared cmd icon
   • Choose "Run as administrator".
2. Enter the following command in command line window:
   • bcdedit /deletevalue increaseuserva
3. Reboot computer