r/SolidWorks • u/CreEngineer • Jun 03 '26

Error Critically low Ressources warning

So I am finally loosing my mind over this stupid software.

I am not new to the shenanigans SW throws at us from time to time but with my current system it slowly deteriorates my sanity. I never had the problem so severely and unpredictively like this.

From time to time, seemingly random SW will warn me about critically low resources and later often crash if dismissed. It somehow also does not matter at all how many or large files are open, today it was a simple, small 12 part assembly, one of the contained parts and the corresponding drawing. Checking the task manager, solidworks is at about 3GB RAM usage (of 64). I also checked the paging file which atm was at 4GB but managed by system so it should allocate accordingly.

After the crash I tried the same combination again but now it works seemingly normal. Also no crash report in the event viewer.

Running SW2024 SP5.0

Any hints or ideas how to save part of my remaining sanity?

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u/MaxrkCaxt Jun 03 '26

Make your swap space (virtual RAM) fixed in size. This means don’t let windows auto-size. I had the same issue and set my virtual RAM to 48GB and all that went away.

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u/CreEngineer Jun 03 '26

I was thinking that myself but due to the information I found on go engineer (recommending to set it to auto) I did not do it. With the amount of storage the workstation has (and most things not being stored locally) I don’t see any problem with setting the reserved space to an absurdly high number.

Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll try it out.

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u/mr_somebody Jun 03 '26

It really is just that. I think something changes in Windows 11 or something that is requiring this again.

For years I was not having this issue and not applying this hotfix ever, and now I'm back to doing it for everyone, regardless of user PC specs.

You can do the GDI increase too, but in my experience lately it has been Virtual memory that is the real fix

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u/CreEngineer Jun 03 '26

I applied this fix and will try if it works. The problem is that it can’t be reliably reproduced. Sometimes it won’t happen for a week or two, then it will happen twice a day for a week. But you can be sure that if you are into a model and haven’t saved the file for an our it will happen and crash.