Could not allocate memory: System out of memory! (Windows Phone)

[juliancruz]

Hi, I’m trying to build my game in Windows Phone, with a unity 4.3.1, and when I play for a moment, the game going to crash and shows me this.

Could not allocate memory: System out of memory!
Trying to allocate: 2596864B with 4 alignment. MemoryLabel: NewDelete
Allocation happend at: Line:0 in Overloaded New
Memory overview

[ ALLOC_DEFAULT ] used: 18815422B | peak: 22811587B | reserved: 22615114B

[ ALLOC_GAMEOBJECT ] used: 1116492B | peak: 2862269B | reserved: 1313280B

[ ALLOC_GFX ] used: 12627596B | peak: 32614107B | reserved: 12629873B

[ ALLOC_PROFILER ] used: 63184B | peak: 179352B | reserved: 202058B

Could not allocate memory: System out of memory!
Trying to allocate: 2596864B with 4 alignment. MemoryLabel: NewDelete
Allocation happend at: Line:0 in Overloaded New
Memory overview

[ ALLOC_DEFAULT ] used: 18815422B | peak: 22811587B | reserved: 22615114B

[ ALLOC_GAMEOBJECT ] used: 1116492B | peak: 2862269B | reserved: 1313280B

[ ALLOC_GFX ] used: 12627596B | peak: 32614107B | reserved: 12629873B

[ ALLOC_PROFILER ] used: 63184B | peak: 179352B | reserved: 202058B

(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d3d49558e4d408f4/Runtime/Allocator/MemoryManager.cpp Line: 793)

The program ‘[1472] TaskHost.exe’ has exited with code -2147483645 (0x80000003).

I don’t understand why the windows phone crashing always if I try to run the game in a nokia lumia 520, and his technical specifications are same to the iphone 4, and my game runs correctly in the iphone 4.

please what’s wrong ?

[MartinCA]

Well, it seems like your application is requesting more memory than is available and crashes violently.

While both the iPhone4 and Lumia 520 have 512MB RAM, Windows Phone limits a single application’s memory consumption to 150~180 MB on lower end devices, from the log you’re trying to allocate 317MB.

The only real solution here is to downsize your memory footprint significantly. Try compressing/downscaling all textures and streaming audio.

For more information on memory limits on Windows Phone OS, check this out:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj681682(v=vs.105).aspx

Do note there’s a specific manifest flag for requesting extended memory allocation, but that is only available on devices with more than 1GB RAM.