memory could not be read crash

(bigpadaboom) #1

it was 3 days ago i played dirty bomb, after that it’s a no go.
Thing is when the game starts to load a map, instant crash with a error message saying (have to translate this so might not be accurate translation)

command from adress 0x0000000066F4CB52 refered to memory at adress 0x00000000FFFFFFFF. Memory could not be read
and then only option is to close the program.

i really love this game and would be killing it in vault but im stuck on this error, pls help me to get back on fragging… doom is getting quite boring after 2 hours…

my comp specs are.

i5-6600k @ 4.5ghz
Z170 pro gaming
8gb ddr 4 kingston savage @ 3000mhz
XFX r9 390x DD edition (undervolt -44mv, overclock to 1090 core, 20+ power)
kignston savage ssd 256gb
2x256gb sata3 drives in raid 0 config
windows 10 pro 64bit

so what i have tried.

updated drives to latest crimson (clean install)
roll back drivers to 17.7.1 that worked 3 days ago (clean install)
reinstalled steam
made steam and dirty bomb to run as admin
made sure antivirus had dirty bomb on exlusion list
updated windows 10 + all drivers
sfc scannow (no erros)
disabled overclocking
mem test for 2 hours (no erros)
hard drive surface test + s.m.a.r.t (no erros)
bios is up to date
directx updated
prayed to the lord of boom

i reinstalled dirty bomb again a few mins back, now i cant even start the game :/, instant crash with the same message.

btw with this rig i can play any other game flawlesly, example just played doom @ 2k with 80-90fps (90fps lock, without it its about 100-110 max) with all the eye candy on with vulkan api, also witcher 3 @ 2k with 60-70fps. no problems what so ever in other games, and those 2 were the most demanding titles

any help is appreciated

-BigPadaBoom-

(bigpadaboom) #2

i finally found the culprit for the memory could not be read!!!.

path of exile, that game hogged all the memory, even system restart didnt free it.

i had some weird out of memory erros on path of exile the past couple of days even when i had 55-60% memory free, well atleast that task manager showed me while game was in the background.
So i downloaded ram map by sys internals as suggested on poe forums, its a bug in the game not freeing the memory cache.

well i opened ram map and looked all the programs reserving system memory, and there it was. Path of exile 5.5gigs on standby, i opened up task manager and task manager showed that there was 80% free without poe running (i have got 8gb system memory). but in reality 5.5 gigs has been reserved for poe.

almost right away dirty bomb tries to cache files it throws memory could not be read error.
Weird that it didnt show up in windows error report, out of memory that is…

well good thing that ram map has a function to reset program table for standby memory. i did that and started dirty bomb, works like a charm with 160-180 fps on 1920x1080 highest settings :slight_smile:

finally i can play again :), just played 20 mins with no problems