PA.exe has stopped working

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  1. zachmaster7

    zachmaster7 New Member

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    After about 3 mins of play, the game freezes, and when I click it gives the error "PA.exe has stopped working". I have tried most of the "fixes' I have been told, but none of them work. I do have the latest AMD driver installed.

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    SXX Post Master General

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    Your problem related to limited memory:
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                 Memory: 4096MB RAM
    Available OS Memory: 3040MB RAM
    There is two things you can try:
    1. First of all try to find out why is 1GB of 4GB of all your RAM gone. Most likely it's reserved by some "bad" driver so and you can unlock it using some instructions that available on internet. You can check it using "Resource Manager".
    2. You may also try to Windows settings and set initial page file / virtual memory size to 12GB with maximal a bit higher:
      http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-virtual-memory-size#1TC=windows-7
      This should prevent some crashes.
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    zachmaster7 New Member

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    I tried the second suggestion, but I haven't been able to find anything on the internet about the first one. Have any links to pages that might help me? If you do, that be great.
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    SXX Post Master General

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    You might start with those links:
    http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/wi...memory-usage-with-windows-7-resource-monitor/
    http://superuser.com/questions/5615...-ram-marked-as-hardware-reserved-in-windows-7
    You may as well put "Hardware reserved memory" in Google and you'll find more.

    If you need help to feel free to sent me friend request on Steam for chat.
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    zachmaster7 New Member

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    Just tested the game after the second suggestion, The game is a lot more laggy and gives me the same crash even sooner now?
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    SXX Post Master General

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    Can you please check what RAM usage of PA.exe you have when game crashes?
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    zachmaster7 New Member

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    Under resource manager, I looked at that, and under "Commit" PA had 790,412 KB. I also saw that there was 0 MB left of free RAM.

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