[Crash]: on startup (out of memory, couldn't allocate ~~~ bytes)

[sheepdeets]

Version of OpenTTD

13.4 (0) Windows 11

Steps to reproduce

1. Start the game from steam

Also I got the Out of memory message in the game the second time I booted up.
I don't have issues while playing the game.

This isn't an old computer (using Win11)

Upload crash files

crash20240310124203.zip

[TrueBrain]

Would you mind trying 14.0-RC1, see if that works? If not, please do attach the json.log 14.0-RC1 will generate. Tnx.

[James103]

Also, how much RAM does your computer have?

[TrueBrain]

Also, how much RAM does your computer have?

@James103: for your context, this kind of information is now in the crash logs since 14.0. Also the reason why I am asking for one, so we can actually see what kind of system it runs on. Also what GRFs are loaded, etc :)

Backtrace:

 	openttd.exe!raise(int signum=22) Line 547	C++
 	openttd.exe!abort() Line 71	C++
 	openttd.exe!error(const char * s=0x00007ff7f1930730, ...) Line 149	C++
 	openttd.exe!MallocError(unsigned __int64 size) Line 20	C++
 	[Inline Frame] openttd.exe!CallocT(unsigned __int64 num_elements=1937288) Line 95	C++
 	openttd.exe!Blitter_32bppAnim::PostResize() Line 536	C++
 	openttd.exe!VideoDriver_Win32Base::ClientSizeChanged(int w, int h, bool force) Line 916	C++
>	openttd.exe!VideoDriver_Win32OpenGL::Start(const std::vector<std::string,std::allocator<std::string>> & param={...}) Line 1350	C++
 	openttd.exe!DriverFactoryBase::SelectDriverImpl(const std::string & name, Driver::Type type=DT_VIDEO) Line 152	C++
 	openttd.exe!DriverFactoryBase::SelectDriver(const std::string & name={...}, Driver::Type type=DT_VIDEO) Line 96	C++
 	openttd.exe!openttd_main(int argc, char * * argv=0x000000ba6813fa50) Line 755	C++
 	openttd.exe!WinMain(HINSTANCE__ * hInstance=0x000000000000000a, HINSTANCE__ * hPrevInstance=0x0000000000000000, char * lpCmdLine=0x0000000000000000, int nCmdShow=-584646656) Line 416	C++

So on-start we already run out of memory, by just allocating the video-buffers. So yeah, very curious to see what 14.0 thinks about this :)

[TrueBrain]

An out-of-memory error means exactly that: OpenTTD tried to allocate memory that wasn't available on your system. Mostly this is caused by having too little memory free to run the game. OpenTTD normally runs with ~100MB of RAM or so, but depending on what you have loaded this can increase. Especially when 32bpp sets are loaded, it can consume more than 1GB of RAM. And when playing a 4k x 4k map, that can boom to ~2GB or so.

Mostly what we see is that users also have software like Chrome active, with many many many open tabs, which drain their available memory. So if this error persists, my suggestion would be to check how much free memory is available, and see what hogs the memory the most. It is not likely to be OpenTTD, at least, we see no evidence of it using an absurd amount of memory.

If you still have this problem, please get back to us with a crash.json.log from 14.0 :)

Hope this helps!