Possible Memory Leak Fix - Worked for me

[Lil' Prophet]

Just bookmarked this page... unfortunately I can't try it for 2 weeks, cause I had to return my VGA card to the store. I don't think that my current card (Asus 3DExplorer 3000 4Mb) can handle the game (I've sold all my previous cards and this is the only one I found).

 

So THANKS!

[tepkisiz]

It TOTALLY WORKS! Thanks man! Why didnt Rockstar put this in the patch???

 

I hope they can also improve frame rates for dual cores with the next patch

[Junkolove]

I tried already evertything and i can my specs

 

Intel core 2 quad cpu q6600 @ 2.4 ghz

2.0 Gb ram

8800 GT

 

I really tried everything and nothing helps every tip/fix that stands here doesnt work.

Dunno anymore what to do im searching al forums already for solution but cant find anything that works. :S

P.S nope didnt overclocked anything

[aaron80]

I am running the game at medium texture at 1680x1050 with an ATI 4870 1Gb. It keeps crashing every 10-15 minutes. Just saw this thread and see that adding this command will work? How do I insert this command? Is it I have to put it after the .exe?

 

Eg. .exe -memrestrict 314572800

[Junkolove]

I am running the game at medium texture at 1680x1050 with an ATI 4870 1Gb. It keeps crashing every 10-15 minutes. Just saw this thread and see that adding this command will work? How do I insert this command? Is it I have to put it after the .exe?

 

Eg. .exe -memrestrict 314572800

Believe me it doesnt work

[fungus303]

My game runs great with ONLY this commandline: -memrestrict 629145600

 

I HAVE NO OTHER COMMANDLINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Running the game just fine tru latest ati tray tools beta and 8.12 final driver

 

Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.80ghz

4gb Dominator 1066mhz @ 1000mhz (fsb/dram 1:1)

Sapphire Radeon HD4870 512mb DDR5

Gigabyte motherboard

 

Also running the game tru my 5.1 samsuns cinema speakers and samsung 1920x1080p 40" TV

 

KiCK ASS!

[TruXter]

My game runs great with ONLY this commandline: -memrestrict 629145600

 

I HAVE NO OTHER COMMANDLINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Running the game just fine tru latest ati tray tools beta and 8.12 final driver

 

Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.80ghz

4gb Dominator 1066mhz @ 1000mhz (fsb/dram 1:1)

Sapphire Radeon HD4870 512mb DDR5

Gigabyte motherboard

 

Also running the game tru my 5.1 samsuns cinema speakers and samsung 1920x1080p 40" TV

 

KiCK ASS!

what does "629145600" account for?

not to be rude but i have no idea how

you guys get that, and would like a

numeric sequence opted best for my rig.

[franchy]

I'm getting problems that pop up saying out of video card memory so I wanna give this a try too...

 

Where do I put the info? I heard something about a commandline.txt file being somewhere, does anyone know where it is?

 

Or am I just supposed to add it into the command line for the shortcut of the game...?

[Voodooman]

 

I asked R* for an explanation as to how they arrived at the values, unfortunatly not heard back yet

easy as 123

 

u want to limit i to 800 mb?

 

800*1024*1024=838860800

 

u want to limit it to 512 mb?

 

512*1024*1024=536870912

 

Do u got the idea?

 

its just value in bytes) why 1024 twice? 1mb=1024kB and 1KB=1024B - thats why) I cant believe so many peoples here such stupid so they cant do such simple math and dont know how many bytes in megabyte)

 

 

P.S. - TruXter u pwnd noob, "can u count sucker? Can u dig it?" (© The Warriors)) )

[TruXter]

 

I asked R* for an explanation as to how they arrived at the values, unfortunatly not heard back yet

easy as 123

 

u want to limit i to 800 mb?

 

800*1024*1024=838860800

 

u want to limit it to 512 mb?

 

512*1024*1024=536870912

 

Do u got the idea?

 

its just value in bytes) why 1024 twice? 1mb=1024kB and 1KB=1024B - thats why) I cant believe so many peoples here such stupid so they cant do such simple math and dont know how many bytes in megabyte)

 

 

P.S. - TruXter u pwnd noob, "can u count sucker? Can u dig it?" (© The Warriors)) )

Nope, don't see how you came to that.

Can you confirm that is the method they use?

 

it looks like you add 20 to the total memory count and then pull numbers out your ###

and then type up some theoretical equation. your 512mb configuration does not match

what others say they are using.

[Voodooman]

 

I asked R* for an explanation as to how they arrived at the values, unfortunatly not heard back yet

easy as 123

 

u want to limit i to 800 mb?

 

800*1024*1024=838860800

 

u want to limit it to 512 mb?

 

512*1024*1024=536870912

 

Do u got the idea?

 

its just value in bytes) why 1024 twice? 1mb=1024kB and 1KB=1024B - thats why) I cant believe so many peoples here such stupid so they cant do such simple math and dont know how many bytes in megabyte)

 

 

P.S. - TruXter u pwnd noob, "can u count sucker? Can u dig it?" (© The Warriors)) )

Nope, don't see how you came to that.

Can you confirm that is the method they use?

 

it looks like you add 20 to the total memory count and then pull numbers out your ###

and then type up some theoretical equation. your 512mb configuration does not match

what others say they are using.

 

OMG now i really believe that u just blind and stupid ***))

 

 

i repeat what Rufus said in Warriors (i like that movie and game)

 

"CAN U COUNT SUCKERS?")))

 

Ok lets do some simple reverse math.

 

1st post in this thread says:

 

 

-memrestrict 629145600

(for high texture)

 

-memrestrict 314572800

(for medium) * This is the one im using and so far so good

 

 

-memrestrict 209715200

(for low)

 

---------------

 

Want to know how many mb is it??

 

now we should divide numbers given by R* support on 1024 twice (i hope u can understand at least that it is reverse action comparing to multiply)

 

629145600/1024/1024=600MB

 

Oh i believe its to hard for u)) ok ill do it step by step)))

 

1) 629145600/1024=614400KB

2) 614400/1024=600MB

 

No just do what i said in previous post to check if this correct))

 

600*1024*1024=629145600 Bytes

 

1) 600*1024=614400KB

2) 629145600/1024=614400KB

 

i hope its enough confirmation for u to be sure that is "METHOD THEY USE" ??)))

Lol there is no other methods to translate MEGABYTES INTO BYTES AND BACK)

 

Can u say now "WOW HOW DID U DO THAT?"" )))

 

if u still dont see how they and i come to that maybe u will try google, or read some math and computer books for "kinder garden" aged kids?))

 

 

Want me to do same "WONDERFUL" TRICK with other numbers from 1st post like 314572800 and 209715200 or u will try yourself to count and get results in 200 and 300 mb ? ))

 

P.S. - thx for LMAO )))

Edited January 6, 2009 by Voodooman

[TruXter]

Where are you getting 1024x2 from?

is that what he said is his system memory?

and the 600 is his video memory?

[copperwire93]

Not working for me, I got crash after using this command line.

[Voodooman]

 

Where are you getting 1024x2 from?

 

LMAO u really skiped all math classes in school, dont u?))

1) 1024*1024=1024x1024=1024^2 Is not 1024*2=1024x2

can u see the difference between what i tiped and what u typed?))

 

u also skiped classes where kids where learned to read, dont u?

2) if u didnt get yet your mistake then read carefull now

 

i said 1024*1024=1048576 - good math

 

u said 1024*2=2048 - bad math

 

3) maybe u should read careful what i posted before should not ask questions that ALREADY WAS ANSERED??

 

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtop...st&p=1058851090

 

SPECIAL FOR U AND OTHER BLIND GUYS WITH LOW MATH AND COMPUTER SKILLS I CAN REPEAT WHAT I SAID BEFORE^_^:

 

 

its just value in bytes) why 1024 twice? 1mb=1024kB and 1KB=1024B - thats why)

 

how can i explain it easy than that??)) are u really "Slow" or "down" or just pretending?

 

ok again why 2 times 1024?

 

1024Bytes=1 KiloByte (count this as 1st 1024), 1024 Kilobytes=1MB (count this as 2nd 1024)

 

so to convert MB into KB u should Multiply MB value one time on 1024, for example if u want to know how many KiloBytes in 256 mb u should do 256mb*1024kb=262144 this mean that u should take 1024 Kilobytes 256 times because 1MB=1024KB) and now (READ THIS PART f*ckING CAREFUL)

 

if u want to know how many Bytes in 256 MB u should multiply it on 1024KB as i explained second ago (this is 1st 1024) and u will get size in Kylobytes, then u should multiply this size in kilobytes one more time on 1024 because there are 1024 bytes in 1 kilobyte 262144*1024=268435456 this mean that u should take 1024 bytes 262144 times.

 

Simply when u do 256*1024*1024 u doing these to steps - 1st multiplier convert MB value into KB value, and 2nd multiplier converts KB value int Byte value.

 

Capish (capisci)?

 

 

is that what he said is his system memory?

and the 600 is his video memory?[/

 

No its what Rockstar support said to him to set, it doesnt represent amount of videomemory or system memory that user have, this value just give orders to game engine or just force it to NOT use more memory then defined by this setting command -memrestrict [maximum amount of bytes deticated to game], probably this command line force engine to strip unused data when game exceed set memory limits, and thats probably prevent leaks because leaks are process when *trying to say that simply, otherwise u will probably not uderstand* when application "dont clean unused" memory after itself and starts to uncontrollably trashing RAM with used resources (its like when trash bin is full and nobody cares to free it and continue to dump trash outside bin).

 

From GTAIV.EXE console output:

 

-memrestrict: Set the restriction the amount of available memory for managed resources

-nomemrestrict: Do not restrict the amount of available memory for managed resources

 

U guys should know that if u using NOMEMRESTRICT that its one of the reason of memory leaks and its override memrestrict command, so make sure that u no using both commands and not using NOMEMRESTRICT at all.

 

-norestrictions just responcible for settings, but if memrestrict not work fo u, u should try it without any other restriction and memory managment commands like -availablevidmem.

[RSANtilles]

I think before you slate anyone for terrible math, you should look to your own grammar. Whereas it's not the worst I've seen it's still pretty atrocious which makes it even worse that you have the cheek to slag someone off for their numerical skills.

Edited January 6, 2009 by RSANtilles

[Voodooman]

Dude, for NON NATIVE ENGLISH TALKING GUY FROM RUSSIA (ME) my grammar much more better than grammar of many native USA or UK guys that u can meet in internet, im talking really aint bad in english (well u know talking and typing little bit different), also if u try to count that fact that i finished high school many years ago (when half of peoples on this forum are still learning in school) , and my last english lessons was not even yesterday and i forgot a lot of rules and cannot remember for sure correct spelling of some words, and if u will try to include in your calculation that fact that everyday im talking Russian (which is much more harder, richer and complicated than english) and not english, also if u will try to think a little that i know at least 2 languages (actualy i also know Swedish a bit of german and french) when YOU ARE and probably third part of USA barely know just 1 native ENGLISH language...

 

After all calculation u will have results that my english isnt perfect but good, 100000 times better than your Russian, and that your attempt of pseudo-intelligent troll attack or just joke about me just have failed.

 

P.S. - Grammar isnt include logic, its just plain memory so every idiot can learn it, but its aint makes him not idiot, in same time math is pure logic and only rational, intelligent and smart peoples good with it)

 

"Learn English grammar before teaching someone math") LOL at u))

Learn RUSSIAN grammar, and Integrals and how to do differential equations)) Im an Engineer and even with my not so good grammar i can teach u a lot of comlex math that u never seen in your school)

 

In USA you cant count everything and even simple numbers, in Russia even simple numbers can count everything including you)

Edited January 6, 2009 by Voodooman

[FX2K]

All you guys on about the math (more so those quoting my post Voodooman) when in my first I stated that

I asked how they came about the figure, I didnt mean how they calculated it lol..

 

I meant... How they came about asking me to limit my resources to that value based on the assumptions of my system

 

i.e

 

I have 4GB ram, 3X GTX280's in SLI etc etc

So how did they arrive at me limitting my system to 300MB memory usage when I clearly have a lot more available than that.

 

4GB ram - 1.5gb used in vista leaves 2.5GB free, 1GB Vram so WHY as little as 300MB ??

 

So as for this comment :

"I cant believe so many peoples here such stupid so they cant do such simple math and dont know how many bytes in megabyte"

 

What you said is totally irrelevant especially when quoting my post, if you bothered to read a few posts on, I also stated what I said above.

Edited January 6, 2009 by swsuk

[killer45acp]

I can play GTA IV 2~4 hours before I get the RESC10 error. The command line parameters may enable me to play a little longer, but at some point I always get it. If you have never seen the RESC10 error, then I don't think you have played long enough. What seems to make the difference to me is turning off the "Clip Capture" feature. With Clip Capture ON I can play around 2 hours, with it OFF I can play around 4 hours.

 

It happens when I hit the ESC key to use the map.

 

 

ProductGTA IVProblemGTA IV CrashDate1/5/2009 7:09 PMStatusReport SentDescriptionCritical runtime problemProblem signatureProblem Event Name:	APPLICATION CRASHSystem RAM:	-1Available RAM:	-1178628096Number of CPUs:	4Video Card Manufacturer:	NVIDIAVideo Card Description:	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 UltraVideo Card Driver Version:	unknownOS Version:	6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1Locale ID:	1033Extra information about the problemBucket ID:	4

 

 

 

ProductGrand Theft Auto IVProblemStopped workingDate1/5/2009 7:09 PMStatusReport SentProblem signatureProblem Event Name:	APPCRASHApplication Name:	GTAIV.exeApplication Version:	1.0.1.0Application Timestamp:	493db559Fault Module Name:	GTAIV.exeFault Module Version:	1.0.1.0Fault Module Timestamp:	493db559Exception Code:	c0000005Exception Offset:	0038a11dOS Version:	6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1Locale ID:	1033Additional Information 1:	5385Additional Information 2:	debc5c125bc5b4fc75c0849c2aa1e5efAdditional Information 3:	64f3Additional Information 4:	1118c4d3080ec1a6ff07edcfb89fd2c7Extra information about the problemBucket ID:	1052810197

 

 

I've had the RESC10 error with the View & Detail Distance at 40, so I play at this.

Statistics

Average FPS: 45.32

Duration: 37.05 sec

CPU Usage: 60%

System memory usage: 32%

Video memory usage: 95%

 

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 1920 x 1200 (59 Hz)

Texture Quality: Medium

Render Quality: Highest

View Distance: 60

Detail Distance: 100

 

Hardware

Microsoft® Windows Vista" Ultimate

Service Pack 1

Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Video Driver version: 181.00

Audio Adapter: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)

Intel® Xeon® CPU X3350 @ 2.66GHz

Edited January 6, 2009 by killer45acp

[Voodooman]

 

What you said is totally irrelevant especially when quoting my post, if you bothered to read a few posts on, I also stated what I said above.

if u probably bothered to read my post till the end u could probaly see this

 

P.S. - TruXter u pwnd noob, "can u count sucker? Can u dig it?" (© The Warriors))

 

And probably could understand who was meant by me))

 

maybe u will tell us how many VRAM do u have (i only heard that u have 4gb of RAM)? I need to know value to do some calculations))

Edited January 6, 2009 by Voodooman

[n3whous3]

f*ck this sh*t man, I don't have problems without -memrestrict except the f*cking big pop ups

 

with using that, there's no pop ups

 

except a BIG LAGGING after 1-2 minutes of gameplay

 

What do you say to this R*?

Edited January 6, 2009 by n3whous3

[Rockstar Toronto]

I need a bit more information to try to help. This thread is specifically to adress the RESC10 errors that some users are getting.

[Voodooman]

Torronto

 

Ok for example i have 4gb of ram (acrualy 3.2 due of vista sharing rest with VIdeocard) and 512 mb deticated + 1gb of shaded memory on my Geforce 8 (game reports that i have 494 mb, looks like u guys dont bothered about configs that have mixed memory but im using -norestrictions to be able to set High res textures)

when im playing in 1280x720 at 10-15 fps with all the settings on 20, game uses 732mb .

 

What will be suggestion for memrestriction values and should i remove -norestriction and play on medium textures and not exceed limit of 494mb??

If i never got RESC10 error, should i use memrestriction or it will give me nothing good?

 

BTW why the game uses SO MANY of Video memory? There are not really that much of texture and geometry data to trash out whole VRAM i hope u working there on better memory management, because now game using extremely to much of resources.

[Psycold]

 

Dude, for NON NATIVE ENGLISH TALKING GUY FROM RUSSIA (ME) my grammar much more better than grammar of many native USA or UK guys that u can meet in internet, im talking really aint bad in english (well u know talking and typing little bit different), also if u try to count that fact that i finished high school many years ago (when half of peoples on this forum are still learning in school) , and my last english lessons was not even yesterday and i forgot a lot of rules and cannot remember for sure correct spelling of some words, and if u will try to include in your calculation that fact that everyday im talking Russian (which is much more harder, richer and complicated than english) and not english, also if u will try to think a little that i know at least 2 languages (actualy i also know Swedish a bit of german and french)  when YOU ARE and probably third part of USA barely know just 1 native ENGLISH language...

 

After all calculation  u will have results that my english isnt perfect but good, 100000 times better than your Russian, and that your attempt of pseudo-intelligent troll attack or just joke about me just have failed.

 

P.S. - Grammar isnt include logic, its just plain memory so every idiot can learn it, but its aint makes him not idiot, in same time math is pure logic and only rational, intelligent and smart peoples good with it)

 

"Learn English grammar before teaching someone math") LOL at u))

Learn RUSSIAN grammar, and Integrals and how to do differential equations)) Im an Engineer and even with my not so good grammar i can teach u a lot of comlex math that u never seen in your school)

 

In USA you cant count everything and even simple numbers, in Russia even simple numbers can count everything including you)

IN MOTHER RUSSIA...GTA FORKS YOU

[Ron Taboga]

These commandlines with those numbers give me a much worse performance then it already is and they reset the Graphic settings to the absolute minimum at startup.

 

I run the Game with -nomemrestrict and -norestrictions and it runs better than on medium with 1280x1024 and High Rendering + Detaildist 10 + View Distance 20 + Traffic 33 + Shadows 0 (Console Values)

 

Rockstar tell me why???

 

I am exceeding the green safe System ressources by almost 300 MB (warning) and the Game runs the same and even sometimes better than without it with medium textures.

 

I really don´t understand the world right now

Edited January 6, 2009 by Ron Taboga

[n3whous3]

So do somebody have lagging problems with the game using this commandline stuff mentioned upstairs? I think that's the best configs for the game, but I have this lagging jamming thing. Not all time, but when I go fast and far from where i were it's just starts doing this. After stopping for a while everything is ok. I tried other memrestrict parameters before and nomemrestrict too, the jamming was big when i used them, now it stops when i stop somewhere.

 

Here's a video:

 

(captured with my phone, to avoid other program effects and so on)

 

 

 

Please reply R* Toronto if you read this

[Voodooman]

I have some lags when my CPU overheating in GTA 4 (exactly then its temperature become 79-80 Celsius its start to lag like that) , after i downvolted my CPU (Intel core duo 2.x) with Rmclock cpu utility from 1.125v to 1.000v at maximal multiplier 13 GTA never overheat my cpu and maximum temp is 73 celsius.

 

Try to do the same, because its doesnt look like so resource managment related lags (i mean if this lag could be because of memory managment then u probably could have just missed textures, low detail lod and other details missing) but looks exactly like CPU lag. also try to set every process to normal priority (even DWM.EXE and some others that higher then normal u can find).

[n3whous3]

 

I have some lags when my CPU overheating in GTA 4 (exactly then its temperature become 79-80 Celsius its start to lag like that) , after i downvolted my CPU (Intel core duo 2.x) with Rmclock cpu utility from 1.125v to 1.000v at maximal multiplier 13 GTA never overheat my cpu and maximum temp is 73 celsius.

 

Try to do the same, because its doesnt look like so resource managment related lags (i mean if this lag could be because of memory managment then u probably could have just missed textures, low detail lod and other details missing) but looks exactly like CPU lag. also try to set every process to normal priority (even DWM.EXE and some others that higher then normal u can find).

Aw man, I said that NO PROBLEMS WERE before I put this command thing into the commandline.txt!!!

 

My CPU IS ALL RIGHT, 55°C max! This lagging is only starts when i USE THESE COMMAND LINES! -nomemrestrict and -memrestrict.

 

Maybe next time I should type in the first line with 70 text size..... Whenever I write this down, everyone comes with the CPU, but every time I start my writing with this: NO PROBLEMS BEFORE USING THESE COMMANDS!

 

thy for reading...

 

And It's in normal priority, as windows DEFAULT to own tasks...

 

OK you can ask then: why should I use this if there's no problem before? The answer is: I have a f*cking big pop up in the game if I don't.

Edited January 6, 2009 by n3whous3

[TruXter]

blah blah blah

If you haven't noticed. Through this whole thread I have avoided being rude, yet you insisted on being a jerk in a language you barely speak. Hey it's cool that you you can speak more than one language. More power to you. I have ignored the whole math thing you have been on a rant and trip about. I was under the impression from the way you responded, you would go off in another rambling trolling if I I tried any harder to ask you where you got your numbers from. Math, well that's grade school stuff. but to pull numbers out of the air, well that is amazing. you repeated rambled stuff about 600 vid memory and what looked like you said was two gigs of on board memory. not really a whole lot to do with my ability to distinguish the difference between byte bits and so fourth. I wanted to know why or how you get two gigs instead of four. I think my questions where polite and precise, yet you whent on " I know math, me smart you dumb!" rants. but never once said how you came up with the configuration. After trying to read that, and then coming in the next day to see you are still on about it, you are officially on ignore and considered useless.

 

Rant to someone else, and try not flooding the thread with what is "almost helpful" if you are not here seeking help as I was, and are mentally incapable of helping, GTFO and I suggest you try that with other threads alike.

 

 

Toronto shouldn't have posted, I am sure he is swamped in whispers and private messages, he should have called a moderator to give people warnings, so this thread can get back on topic.

[FX2K]

 

What you said is totally irrelevant especially when quoting my post, if you bothered to read a few posts on, I also stated what I said above.

if u probably bothered to read my post till the end u could probaly see this

 

P.S. - TruXter u pwnd noob, "can u count sucker? Can u dig it?" (© The Warriors))

 

And probably could understand who was meant by me))

 

maybe u will tell us how many VRAM do u have (i only heard that u have 4gb of RAM)? I need to know value to do some calculations))

Looks like im not the only one who didnt read the full post

 

4GB ram - 1.5gb used in vista leaves 2.5GB free, 1GB Vram so WHY as little as 300MB ??

 

Besides that, this thread is going completely off topic... as R* Torronto stated, its for RESC10 / Out of video memory error

nothing more, not to improve FPS, not to allow higher settings, to stop GTA crashing.

 

Edited January 6, 2009 by swsuk

[n3whous3]

What you said is totally irrelevant especially when quoting my post, if you bothered to read a few posts on, I also stated what I said above.

if u probably bothered to read my post till the end u could probaly see this

 

P.S. - TruXter u pwnd noob, "can u count sucker? Can u dig it?" (© The Warriors))

 

And probably could understand who was meant by me))

 

maybe u will tell us how many VRAM do u have (i only heard that u have 4gb of RAM)? I need to know value to do some calculations))

Looks like im not the only one who didnt read the full post

 

4GB ram - 1.5gb used in vista leaves 2.5GB free, 1GB Vram so WHY as little as 300MB ??

 

Besides that, this thread is going completely off topic... as R* Torronto stated, its for RESC10 / Out of video memory error

nothing more, not to improve FPS, not to allow higher settings, to stop GTA crashing.

Maybe because it's enough?

 

.....

 

The memory limit mentioned is just for the system ram, vram is an other story.

 

Why? How many possibilities do you think? The calculatings are always in bytes. Not in chewinggums, rocks or 3*2+1 megabites and it's multiples... sish