Solved Falcon BMS 4.37.2 Crashing Mid-Multiplayer Flight
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@b0bl00i I haven’t gotten around to that yet because I’ve been busy. But I’ll do it sometime within a few hours.
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I have 32 Gb installed, but I get a figure of 64 Gb “Committed”. Does anyone know what that means (and is that a bad thing) ?
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@jayb it includes the cache (on disk)
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@MaxWaldorf
I see, thanks.Is it best practice to avoid having disk memory? I noticed from some of the other screenshots that they did not have that (Committed was same as installed physical memory)
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@jayb You should have it. Let windows handle that for you.
The term is “virtual memory” : https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterprisedesktop/tip/Understand-and-manage-Windows-10-virtual-memory -
@jayb the “commit charge” (9.5 GB) is the term used for sum total of memory that could be accessed… all the shared memory, and per-process memory, and kernel memory.
the “commit limit” (63.9 GB) is the max your system can sustain… basically physical RAM + the size of your pagefile
seems fine.
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@jayb I have my pagefile turned off, so on my screenshot commit limit == physical ram, as you noticed.
Personally, I think the idea of a pagefile is ridiculous in the year 2023 when you can buy 32+ GB of RAM for $100
The concept dates back to early 90s (or earlier?) when we ran 32-bit OS on 256 MB of RAM…
Counter-arguments (to keep a pagefile):
- modern SSDs are much faster than HDDs from the 90s… so if you do hard-fault a page from disk, it’s less drastic perf impact
- a certain minimum amount (~1 GB on x64) is needed to record kernel crash dumps, if a bluescreen happens … so if you are a driver developer … well you probably don’t need advice from me.
- on laptops… if you use hibernate… in theory the OS can passively write memory pages to the pagefile, so less disk I/O is needed when you suspend and resume (in practice, I’m not sure how well Win10/11 does this… but it’s worth considering if you’re a laptop user)
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@airtex2019
Thanks for the input. I do run an old-school gaming desktop and I get by fine with the RAM that I have installed, or should I say, the memory configuration on my system.I realized now that half of what the system is able to access is not my physical RAM but virtual. I guess 32 Gb is still ok, but in a future upgrade I might go for 64 and no pagefile since, as you mentioned, RAM is reasonable in price (even in today’s market)
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Okay so as it turns out, it was the extreme memory profile that was causing the crashes. The RAM overclock was unstable so it caused BMS and other games to crash as well. There was also the occasional BSOD that I would get once every day or two. All the issues have disappeared now that I’ve set the RAM to it’s default speed.
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@b0bl00i I don’t remember how how the CPU got, but my PC did survive for half an hour, after I changed the RAM’s clock speed to the default.
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@MustErd that’s great – glad we could help!
Did you say, what kind of cooler is on your CPU?
If you have AIO / water cooling, you might be able to maintain 3200MHz. No way to be certain, of course.
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@MustErd great work persisting in the trouble shooting! Good job and glad that it works.
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