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Windows 10 "Out of Memory" error msg, plenty of V/RAM
Frequently when I am playing Cities Skylines or other RAM-hungry games, in the middle of playing I will get a message saying that the computer has run out of memory and I need to close the program. This happens most often with C:S because I have a large number of custom assets in use, but it's happened with a couple other programs lately as well.
Naturally, I have a process monitor up while I use the computer and I can see that while a great deal of my RAM is in use, up to 30GB at a time, my VRAM is typically below 30% usage even under load. So it strikes me as odd when my computer says I am out of both RAM and VRAM when this is patently not the case.
I'm not really sure where to begin with troubleshooting this error. In the most recent occurrence, my display drivers crashed and I had to reboot my computer, which leads me to suspect it has something to do with the latest drivers from nVidia. I'm not sure how to pin down the exact point of failure, though.