Game OOM Errors

[Mattie941]

I have upgraded to a MEDION Erazer Major from my Medion Erazer P6661.

I have installed rFactor and FSX and copied across game files from my old laptop. For reference, on my old laptop I could run 24 hour+ races/flights without OOM issues. However, on my new laptop I run into OOM issues after 1-2 hours.

The game settings and nvidia settings are the same on both laptops.

Why am I getting OOM issues on my newer, higher spec laptop?

[Fishtown]

Hello @Mattie941 and welcome.

I could well imagine that this has to do with the transferred saved data.

Your old P6661 had Windows 10 installed, and now you probably have Windows 11. Perhaps that's causing a conflict.

bye Fishtown

[Mattie941]

I only transferred the mods addons that I have. Game model files and textures. I still installed the game as instructed before doing this. It would be no different to installed the game and adding a mod to the game. 

Is there anything I can do with the new laptop to stop it hitting OOM for both FSX and rFactor?

[Mattie941]

See some system and setup information below:

- Are you running Windows 11 23H2 / 24H2 on the new laptop?
25H2

- Are you using high-resolution texture packs, AI mods, or complex aircraft/scenery?
No high-resolution texture packs. Some AI packs, but nothing that did not run on the Medion P6661. Medium complexity scenery and low complexity aircraft.

- Is the laptop running in:
Hybrid graphics (Optimus) Or dGPU-only / discrete GPU mode in BIOS?
MSHybrid

- Are these crashes happening at similar points (loading sessions, pit stops, scenery transitions)?
Same for both games. At around 1 hour of gameplay. Changing the scenery and texture settings in game or with the nvidia controller have very little impact on the time before OOM

The new laptop is a MEDION Erazer Major 16 X1 16" Gaming Laptop – Intel® Core™ Ultra 9, RTX 5070 Ti, 2 TB SSD. I have installed the latest Medion drivers from the Medion website. I've run the Medion diagnosis tool and it did not find any errors. 

I have tried the 4GB for 32 bit applications patch but it doesn't seem to have made a difference. 

I have really large pagefile and hiberfile. Could this be causing an issue?
pagefile.sys = 16,777,216 KB

hiberfil.sys = 13,194,652 KB

I have tried running without:

• Allow your controller to open Game Bar
• Use (XBox controller buttons) as Guie button in apps
• Record what happened
• Capture audio when recording a game
• Capture mouse curser when recording a game

I tried installing Windows 10 as a dual boot option. The OS does not read the NVIDIA graphics card (it only sees the Intel IGPU) and the game was able to run for ~5-6 hours before crashing. This is 5x times longer than running the game on Windows 11 with the 5070i on the same game settings running the same scenario.

Interestingly the error report after the crash is different on Windows 10 compared to Windows 11.

Windows 10 error:
Faulting application name: rFactor.exe, version: 1.2.5.5, time stamp: 0x4705a035
Faulting module name: d3dx9_40.dll, version: 9.24.950.2656, time stamp: 0x48ec1d70
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x001ea4cc
Faulting process ID: 0x2494
Faulting application start time: 0x01dc8b2737d5712e
Faulting application path: C:\rFactor\rFactor.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\d3dx9_40.dll
Report ID: 280c8b0d-e7f6-4e84-bc46-75528b38397a
Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID:

Windows 11 error:
Faulting application name: rFactor.exe, version: 1.2.5.5, time stamp: 0x4705a035
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.26100.7623, time stamp: 0x49f93c20
Exception code: 0xe06d7363
Fault offset: 0x00162404
Faulting process id: 0x4D28
Faulting application start time: 0x1DC87A205ED073A
Faulting application path: C:\rFactor\rFactor.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: 8618cfc0-3bd4-4e76-b2ed-ef9e66dba159
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID: