Open the optimizer - press the cogwheel at the top and disable “auto-optimization”
Start the game, when it switches to full-screen on sign-in, press alt+enter to make it a windowed game.
Now whenever the circle becomes alot of “red” color while tuning etc, just hit the optimize button, and watch the magic as the memory-usage goes down like new.
not sure if this solves the dissapearing textures tho and crashes with endurance races, maybe after 10 or 15 laps you could pause game, try to press the optimize button, and continue racing.
It’s not a fix, but it works good for me as a workaround for now.
Additional Note : increasing your pagefile seems to reduce the chance before the memory-leak crash happens. so i suggest to set it double the size of your physical ram, or at least higher than your physical ramsize. In my case i have 16GB physical ram so i set the pagefile at “custom size - initial size 32000MB - maximum size 32000MB”
I just wanted to say Trackah123 thanks for you help on the forums.
Whilst I seem to fixed my “saving content” infinite loop glitch by reinstalling the game for the 100th time, I’ve come across a unbearable sound glitch that puts me off my focus. My sound will stall for 3-4 secs whilst driving and it happens about 2-4 times during a small race. Do you know whats causing this? Is it a common bug? I can’t find much on it. I don’t think its got anything to do with my soundcard either as my specs are above recommended.
I’m very skeptical on those “ram optimizer” apps, since fundamentally all they can do is forcing a push of the working-set/cache-set to the pagefile, which usually slows down the system even more. They can’t magically force a other app to deallocate memory, since they have no access to the private process at all. If for some strange reason this has a positive effect on FM7, than there is also a lightweight opensource tool you can try.
I’m using memreduct right now, seems a good program. i think both memreduct and wise cleaner uses the Windows API safe methods to clean RAM, when you run it as Administrator they get more privileges i think.
@mannmau5, hard to tell like this, it could be anything basically, you could try to run “task manager” while playing the game, check if for example the CPU, memory or Harddrive activity is spiking when that “sound glitch” happens.
Additionally you can run “GPU-Z” to monitor your GPU usage, or “OpenHardwareMonitor” to monitor your system while playing, see if anything is out of the ordinary.
the point here is: after I finished a race that runned smoothly and then restarting it, it’s hitching/stuttering massively. next time I’m getting this issue I will check my RAM usage.
In my case it seems that switching it to windowed mode may have helped quite a bit. I can’t be 100% sure as I also made some changes to various settings under video. I had made those changes before and it did not seem to help but I noticed yesterday they had been all reset to dynamic at some point so I changed them again then also set windowed mode and while I am still seeing the occasional stutter they happen less often and are less noticeable when they do happen
As AndyPandy stated “memoryoptimizers” often makes the problem worse. Let Windows handle the memory and Forza7 need to get the leaks fixed.
How Memory Optimizers Work
When you use a memory optimizer, you’ll see your computer’s RAM usage go down. This may seem like an easy win — you’ve decreased RAM usage just be pressing a button, after all.
But it’s not that simple!
Memory optimizers actually work in one of two ways:
They call the EmptyWorkingSet Windows API function, forcing running applications to write their working memory to the Windows page file.
They quickly allocate a large amount of memory to themselves, forcing Windows to discard cached data and write application data to the page file. They then deallocate the memory, leaving it empty.
Both of these tricks will indeed free up RAM, making it empty. However, all this does is slow things down — now the applications you use will have to get the data they need from the page file, reading from the hard drive and taking longer to work. Any memory being used for cache may be discarded, so Windows will have to get the data it needs from the hard drive.
In other words, these programs free up fast memory by forcing data you need onto slower memory, where it will have to be moved back to fast memory again. This makes no sense! All it accomplishes is selling you another system optimization program you don’t need.
I tried MemReduct even without a swapfile set in Windows10, so it does seem to work. if there is no swapfile, how does this app “write to slower memory?”
It cant, that’s why it will just discard the cache and temp working sets, which are there to make access faster in the first place. I don’t want to go to deep into detail, but the whole concept of those memory optimizer are a solution to a problem that mainly affected Windows 98 and its “bad” cache management. This does not mean that in theory it can’t help in some situations, but that are just edge cases or some really rare conditions that have to occur. So try it and if you think it helps, than by all means use it. The tool i posted seems small and without potential spy/adware often bundled with such “optimizer” tools.
PS: I mean just think about it, those tools are around for 15 years and time and time again pop-up as “solution” in some special cases. If they really would fix a actual common problem, every gamer/tips/benchmark site would use and encompass them in there tests.
Hello, the program ‘Mem Reduct’ helped me with Forza Motorsport 7. It doesn’t crash when it does automatically optimize memory. Forza Motorsport 7 piles memory up overtime. Mostly in upgrade menu and multiplayer. I have 16GB 2400Mhz DD3 RAM and from initial usage of 5GB when I start the game, it goes above 12GB when I try to upgrade a car. This is amazingly bad. However I seen same things with Battlefield 1 and GTA 5. I had the same issue with memory leaks in those games and 0xc0000005 error. Those are the only 3 games that I have issue with. The bad thing is I paid for Ultimate edition of Forza Motorsport 7 to play on my TV in living room in HDR I hope this ‘Mem Reduct’ program will help me play this game without crashes until Turn10 fixes it.
Well in any case, as i said it’s a temporary workaround for this game only, not a “fix” . if it helps to extend the life of FM7 a bit without CTD, it’s something.
I hope this ‘Mem Reduct’ program will help me play this game without crashes until Turn10 fixes it.