- 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.
Computers with a low amount of RAM available may face issues to run the game reliably.
How this happens
- You start the game and it loads from your Hard Drive to your RAM.
- You play a few battles and your RAM starts filling up.
- Your Computer runs out of free RAM space and the game crashes.
- About: Windows and Memory limits
- An error looking like the image below appears.
How to resolve this issue
- Verify your computer meets the minimum requirements. See amount of RAM required.
- Run the game in safe mode, with no mods.
- 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
Guide based on: Microsoft 4GT Virtual address Tuning.
Increasing the virtual address space for the process on Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 x86
- Run command line with administrator privileges:
- Open Start menu and type cmd
- Right click on the appeared cmd icon
- Choose "Run as administrator".
- Enter the following command in command line window:
- bcdedit /set increaseuserva 3072
- Reboot your computer.
Verify increase of virtual address space
- Run command line with administrator privileges:
- Open Start menu and type cmd,
- Right click on the appeared cmd icon
- Choose "Run as administrator".
- Enter the following command in command line window:
- bcdedit /enum | find "increaseuserva"
- If optimization flag exists you will be provided the following output:
- increaseuserva 3072
Rollback increase of virtual address space
- Run command line with administrator privileges:
- Open Start menu and type cmd,
- Right click on the appeared cmd icon
- Choose "Run as administrator".
- Enter the following command in command line window:
- bcdedit /deletevalue increaseuserva
- Reboot computer