Virtual memory leak in Dirt 5

[Minotaurtoo]

Ok, recently installed Dirt 5 and am having a weird problem...

 

system specs:

OS is windows 10 latest build

R9 3900X

 5700XT

 32GB Gskill 3200mhz RAM 

A plethora of hard drives including a 250GB 970 evo and a PNY XLR8 2 TB nvme drive.

 

Issue:

Randomly my page file will bloom from the normal 6 - 20GB to well over 60GB all while RAM usage stays under 25%... I have tried increasing virtual memory all the way up to 1TB just to see, still balloons that far eventually.  It's almost like Dirt 5 or windows is forgetting it's already there and creating a new allocation for the game at some point along the way... if I exit the game in time to prevent a crash all is well and a simple sign out and back in restores page file usage to normal.  This is the only game that does this and it doesn't do it often.  

 

edit:

Forgot to add attempted solutions summary

1. switch from automatic virtual memory management to manual

2. increase allocation

3. change location of page file

4. load game different ways (compatibility)

5. close all other programs including as many background apps as possible.

6. say words my mother would get upset by if she heard... 

7. swap windows accounts to my sons (testing settings differences)

Edited January 3, 2021 by Minotaurtoo
forgot

[ENTERPRISE]

Curious, I have not come across a game that overly abuses the pagefile. The next two things I would try. 

 

1. Disable page file, just for testing and see how the game runs 

2. Disable the page file (Thus clearing it) > Uninstall Game > Reboot > Re-enable Automatic Pagefiling > Reboot > Reinstall game & test.

[Minotaurtoo]

This is the first for me too... one thing I noticed since I was logged on last, is that the "leak" continues after exiting the game unless I sign out of windows and log back in... don't have to do a full restart, just sign out... will try your solutions soon.

[ENTERPRISE]

I would imagine the continuously growing page file, or non release of the page file after game exit must be due to a stuck process of sorts. Not the first time I have seen windows do that. For now I can only recommend what I wrote in my last post. If anything else comes to mind or I find something out I will be sure to let you know  

[Minotaurtoo]

ok, tried disabling the page file and restarting... fail... or windows is lying.. not sure which... either way the game ran fine with the page file "turned off"... I will try a reinstall... and like you I was thinking it was a stuck process or similar issue.  This issue is random so I really won't know for a while if it's fixed or not.

Edited January 3, 2021 by Minotaurtoo

[Minotaurtoo]

Ok, no good... not sure what's going on, tried to find the process that was eating up the virtual memory, but not really sure how to do it... nothing showed that particularly active in the task manager and nothing was showing any actual disk usage... I'm going to try using performance monitor to see the hard fault count... perhaps I can find it that way... but once it starts I only have a few seconds before it chews through several gigabytes of allocation.  thanks for your help

[ENTERPRISE]

Hmmm. Have you tried re-downloading a healthy windows image and running the file check utility ? 

 

Run these commands (As Admin) 

 

Quote

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

 

When this one reaches 100% then run the below

 

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sfc /scannow

 

Long shot but the above will re-download a healthy windows image into the system, then running the sfc /scannow will check your windows files against the newly downloaded image and replace any corrupted/missing windows files. 

 

Worth a go.

[Minotaurtoo]

OMG found it... seems that it's an AMD file!... for some reason Dirt 5 triggers it, but I finally found the culprit in action... it's AMDRSServ.exe that's actually eating it up.  

 

Trying what you said as well, just in case there is some other interaction there that might be causing it...  I did find this  where at least a couple others were having similar issue with AMDRSServ.exe... but I didn't know that until I actually  caught the little bugger chewing up my virtual memory... I will be watching and I'll get back when I know something, but I have to go back to work tomorrow so my gaming will be cut out a good bit.

[ENTERPRISE]

10 hours ago, Minotaurtoo said:

OMG found it... seems that it's an AMD file!... for some reason Dirt 5 triggers it, but I finally found the culprit in action... it's AMDRSServ.exe that's actually eating it up.  

 

Trying what you said as well, just in case there is some other interaction there that might be causing it...  I did find this  where at least a couple others were having similar issue with AMDRSServ.exe... but I didn't know that until I actually  caught the little bugger chewing up my virtual memory... I will be watching and I'll get back when I know something, but I have to go back to work tomorrow so my gaming will be cut out a good bit.

Ahh nice catch.  Looks like the Radeon drivers are not playing nice, a quick lookup of AMDRSServ.exe seems to indicate that. Well at least you have found the culprit, odd that Dirt 5 triggers it. Hopefully a driver update/removal and reinstall will remedy. 

 

Yeah does not hurt to run the Windows Integrity Check too. I actually do it from time to time just because. 

[Minotaurtoo]

just in case someone searches this out, the solution that worked for me was to go in and disable pretty much all automated amd stuff... like automatic updates, auto set profiles and such... all manual settings... 

[ENTERPRISE]

3 hours ago, Minotaurtoo said:

just in case someone searches this out, the solution that worked for me was to go in and disable pretty much all automated amd stuff... like automatic updates, auto set profiles and such... all manual settings... 

Thanks for sharing, still don't see how auto AMD updates would do it, would thought it would come down to something else...but whatever works lol.