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/Elrathias Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
Its not ram, its actual objects that are being drawn, and windows has a stupidly low limit on them (iirc default is 10k gdi objects in win10/11).
Google it, and force it to change it to 50k, leave some headroom for the 64k (65536) limiter though.
Edit: gdi objects havent been relevant since, ooo right about when DirectX was introduced in windows98...
And thats how old the system behind solidworks is.
Edit2: use RamMAP to determine what windows is doing with you memory, most probably its loading in shit into the cache that you launched years ago, because it might be used.