Constantly running low on UI memory (and I don't have that many addons enabled)

Benie · April 2016

Something's happened since I last played, which was a month ago. It seems as soon as I log in, I get an error about UI memory getting low. Before, the memory would get low within about an hour or two of play. This is causing jerky gameplay (even during combat).
Can someone please elaborate on this, of why this is a thing? I never had this issue when playing WoW all those years ago.

Currently I have 16 of the 22 addons that I'm currently using, that are active.

MissBizz · April 2016

Some add-ons are atrocious and can cause that pretty much on it's own. What add-ons are you running?

Benie · April 2016

Currently, I'm using;
Advanced Filters
AlphaGear
Auto Recharge
Bag Space Indicator
Destinations
First Person Werewolf
FTC (Foundry Tactical Combat)
Immersive Mount Camera
Minimap
Multi-Quest Tracker SE
Quest Map
Shissu's Guild Tools
SkyShards
S'rendarr
[WG] Enhanced Chat
wykkyd Auto Repair

These are all the ones that are currently active, that I remember using before. I needed to reinstall ESO for a reason and lost my list of addons. And I'm using Minion.

MissBizz · April 2016

Shissu's Guild Tools <---- That one ALWAYS makes my memory thing pop up, and I've even changed up that setting to allow it more memory.

[EDIT] So I only run it on a mule character for when I actually need the features. If I play that character I turn it off while I play.

Benie · April 2016

I'll disable that and see if it happens again. Could you recommend an addon similar to it that uses way less memory?

MissBizz · April 2016

Benie wrote: »

I'll disable that and see if it happens again. Could you recommend an addon similar to it that uses way less memory?

Sorry, if I knew of one I'd be changing to it as well

That's why I only use it on one character, or enable it if I need it. I haven't actually looked for one in awhile so I'll do that today. If I find one I'll let ya know! What features do you use?

rfennell_ESO · April 2016

Benie wrote: »

Something's happened since I last played, which was a month ago. It seems as soon as I log in, I get an error about UI memory getting low. Before, the memory would get low within about an hour or two of play. This is causing jerky gameplay (even during combat).
Can someone please elaborate on this, of why this is a thing? I never had this issue when playing WoW all those years ago.

Currently I have 16 of the 22 addons that I'm currently using, that are active.

In UserSettings.txt on your computer.

SET LuaMemoryLimitMB "64"

Can be increased, you can try 256 and see if that's enough. If not 512. or 1024.

I'd start at 256.

Benie · April 2016

@rfennell_ESO:
So the lua memory, is this separate from the memory the game takes? And will it cause the memory use to double or triple if I raise it?
I currently have 8GB.

@MissBizz:
I mainly use how it uses the character name instead of the login name when chatting in my Guild. I do use the time option, and the mail. That's about it.

wayfarerx · April 2016

Benie wrote: »

So the lua memory, is this separate from the memory the game takes?

More or less, yes. It's taken by the same process as the game but is reserved for the Lua VM.

Benie wrote: »

And will it cause the memory use to double or triple if I raise it? I currently have 8GB.

It will cause the game to allocate the amount that you specify for Lua, it should not affect other aspects of the game's memory usage.

FWIW, I have 8g of memory and run with 1g of Lua memory, but I do use a ton of addons.

rfennell_ESO · April 2016

Benie wrote: »

@rfennell_ESO:
So the lua memory, is this separate from the memory the game takes? And will it cause the memory use to double or triple if I raise it?
I currently have 8GB.

@MissBizz:
I mainly use how it uses the character name instead of the login name when chatting in my Guild. I do use the time option, and the mail. That's about it.

With 8 gig of mem you can use any of the settings I listed and you will not have any issues. Like I said, start with 256 and if you get no error you're fine; just raise it until you don't get an error message.