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Whilst editing a largish route I'm getting the occasional Out of Memory crash. I'm using a high-end-in-2015 Win10 PC, running TS2020 in 64-bit mode. Is it worth upgrading my 16GB DRAM?

longbow wrote:Whilst editing a largish route I'm getting the occasional Out of Memory crash. I'm using a high-end-in-2015 Win10 PC, running TS2020 in 64-bit mode. Is it worth upgrading my 16GB DRAM?

On my large routes, I get the occasional OOM crash, but only when I forget to save more often. All changes are held in RAM until the next save; not just the last change, but all previous ones in order for you to "undo". This is particularly true when making track changes, and the "ribbons" and "nodes" need to be altered with each change. As you already have 16 GB, you should be OK - unless it is really old!

longbow wrote:Whilst editing a largish route I'm getting the occasional Out of Memory crash. I'm using a high-end-in-2015 Win10 PC, running TS2020 in 64-bit mode. Is it worth upgrading my 16GB DRAM?

16GB is fine, there's little improvement with more memory.
With the change to 64 bit Train Simulator I got exception errors, when the menu's were updated I got out of memory errors instead. The cure for me was to reduce the number of scenarios in Train Simulator.

OOM errors have NOTHING to do with the AMOUNT of Physical RAM installed.
OOM = Access Violation = Memory Mismatch = SBHH = 0xC00000005 errors. These are SOFTWARE Errors.
They are basically due to "INVALID PAGE FAULTS" and the TS code is calling for memory (RAM) addresses that are already occupied, not valid, or not available, or were never present. It's to do with how the OS/VAS/TS20XX code interacts with the cpu/MMU and the RAM.
RAM is hardware and if you ran out of RAM (ie a Literal OOM )you would get a BSOD and the whole PC would crash and not just TS20XX.

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Thanks for your replies. I'll skip the hardware upgrade.