Why does Desktop Window Manager leak memory or even crash?
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Mar 15, 202615919 viewsConfidence Score0%
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My Desktop Window Manager memory usage keeps spiking and causing it to disable Aero, saying it ran out of allowed memory. DWM restarts and comes back up fine when I kill its process. Why is this happening? How can I correct it? Can I change the amount of memory it's allowed? Hardware: Intel Core 2 …
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Fix for: Why does Desktop Window Manager leak memory or even crash?
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The official unofficial explanation from Windows Engineering team on this this is that Windows is pinning GPU Accelerated applications to your primary video card. The engineering team describes it as a "very inefficienct" to use a GPU Accelerated ap…
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