"Insufficient System Memory" Message - SolidWorks

What if you turn off your second screen?

I usually ONLY have SolidWorks open

It is often at the opening itself, without any heavy parts or assemblies.

My post configuration is pretty good it seems to me:

That's since I put Windows 10 + SW2016

And every once in a while, I get this message:

And I forgot to mention that it doesn't cause any crashes though!

Just these messages that appear.

Yes, that's exactly what happened to me too. Strangely it's not all the time

 

One of the pilots perhaps?

Edit:  A beginning of an answer here

"... That is not memory resources.  That refers to GDI objects.  There are several threads on the forum about GDI objects.

 

When you have lots of stuff open it uses lots of GDI objects.  Every icon, button and object in a user interface uses a GDI object.  There is a limit in Windows on how many GDI objects that are available.  Closing programs frees up the objects.

 

You are not running out of memory, you are running out of GDI objects... "

Spring

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The problem would not come from the memory but from the "GDI objects", basically, a graphical interface.

And also from the virtual memory of Windows.

We should dig into this side.

 

See to increase these two values in the register or I don't know where =)

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It's probably a problem of video memory access.
So maybe the driver has not been updated following the Win XX -> Win 10 toggle,
and so it pumps in the memory of the processor and not the graphics card.

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This is the procedure for increasing the number of GDI objects.

 


augmenter_nombre_dobjets_gdi.txt
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Thanks @Pascal, but how does it work?

Hi Alain,

If it is a problem that has just appeared; try to see a stroke of CCleaner and a system cleanup followed by a good defragmentation. Maybe it can solve the problem...

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see the configue that HP recommends for SW 2016 and windaube 10

http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/4AA5-7540EEW.pdf?ver=2.0

Reading it's 16/32 giga of mini RAM

so maybe a cause and effect???????????????????????

@+

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For my part, I have 16GB of ram and I modified the virtual  memory to initial 32000 maximum 64000 on my system ssd. because with solidworks running the recommendation is at 24507 MB

Since no more message of insufficient memory

 

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Yes, try to clean everything before resorting to that.

 

Good luck!;;)

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To answer the question: how does it work?

You have to enter the registry, find the keys mentioned in the document and modify the values (while remaining within the specified range).

I never tested it because I had changed my pc at that time.

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for how to do it on W10 follow the link

https://korben.info/une-astuce-pour-rendre-windows-10-plus-rapide.html

 

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You know what? In my opinion it's just a matter of sensors.

They must be more picky on Windows 10 and so with your 8GB of ram, it just has to alert you that you won't be able to use your pc normally using Solidworks 100%.

While under Windows 7, being probably less RAM-hungry, the message did not appear.

You can always, as said before, increase the virtual memory and remove features that are not used.

See  here

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Thank you all for your many answers!!

Lots of answers and interesting links.

Thank you Lynkoa community!