Game crashed to desktop

[Brave6740]

This is a post I’ve posted elsewhere on this forum, but it might apply to some here.

Crash to Desktop after a few minutes of playing AoE2 Definitive Edition steam version

[image] If you suspect a crash to desktop due to low memory, you can tell for sure that this is the case by looking at Event Viewer > Windows Logs > System and scrolling down to the time and date of the last crash, your error should look similar to the screenshot attached. It will also tell you how much virtual memory AOE2:DE was consuming at the time of crash. In my case with UHD enabled, the game was consuming 11.5GB virtual memory. This is on a system with 16GB RAM. Not all crashes will b…

To give you an idea of the demands this game places upon virtual memory, here are some screenshots of task manager whilst the benchmark is running.

Settings used

UHD OFF - Peak RAM usage = 6GB, Virtual memory usage = 11.5GB

UHD ON - Peak RAM usage = 13.8GB, Virtual memory usage = 25.7GB

By default windows decides how big the pagefile should be, in my case it was not able to assign enough (due to lack of space on my primary hard drive), so my game crashed.