Virtual memory range for PCH exceeded

Development Programming & Scripting
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Windows 10
16 gigs of ram
VS2013(update 5) - 32 bit community
VS2015 - 32 bit community

For those who are still having an issue with this. Not sure why this is only recently affecting me, but here is what i did to fix it.

I noticed my Samsung SSD software “optimization” was changing my virtual memory space / swap file settings. For more info on how to fix it here is the Microsoft page.

I changed it to “system managed”, rather than the default ( which was quite low, thanks samsung)

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Win7 16gb ram VS2013
Changing virtual memory to “system managed” didn’t solve the problem for me.
Can some1 explain how to change /Zm1000 to /Zm400?
I’ve found VCToolChain.cs in UnrealBuildTool>Windows.
According to microsoft
I change it in property pages but it’s inactive (grey key in properties) for VCToolChain.cs
I’m kinda new to this so basic explanation would be appriciated.

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I’m still having this issue as well with the preview 2 build. and the preview 2 build does not seem to have the /ZmXXX line that people mention below. (Noticed it was removed in the change notes on github)
I’m having this issue when building the UE4 Source itself.

Ok so i repaired the VS2013 and added the /Zm lines that were taken out in the preview 2 in files UWPToolChain.cs and VCToolChain.cs and compiling now seems to be compiling fine now.

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Hello everyone,

I just tried building 4.10 Preview 3 with Visual Studio 2013, and did not see the error that I saw in Preview 1. For those of you who were still seeing this happen in Preview 2, does it still happen for you in Preview 3?

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Hello everyone,

We did not receive any further reports of this issue occurring in Preview 3 or Preview 4, so we believe it has been resolved. I will be marking this issue as resolved for internal tracking purposes, but if anyone sees it again in 4.10 (released today), please feel free to add a comment and reopen this post.

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4.10 release, VS2015. Constantly getting:

error C3859: virtual memory range for PCH exceeded; please recompile with a command line option of ‘-Zm90’ or greater

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Hi ,

Are you building the Engine, or do you see this when trying to build a project in Visual Studio? Do you see the same result if you try using the suggested command line option?

Also, would it be possible to get your dxdiag information?

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I had to do the opposite. My system managed pagefile was only 300MB and I constantly got the “virtual memory range for PCH exceeded”-message, so I changed it to always be 4GB min and 6GB max. Fixed it for me.

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I get this on unreal 4.15.1-release still. Please reopen. I would be happy to provide information needed.

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Hey ardneran,

Can you provide any information about the specific issue you’re seeing? Are you compiling the engine from source or a project? What is the exact error message you receive?

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I am getting it too, as well as extremely long compile times. I have to compile 3-4 times before I can get a successful compile.
Log is:

Info Total build time: 86.70 seconds (Local executor: 0.00 seconds)
Info Compiling game modules for hot reload
Info Performing 7 actions (4 in parallel)
Info Tank.cpp
Info TankAIController.cpp
Info TankAimingComponent.cpp
Info TankPlayerController.cpp
Info c1xx: error C3859: virtual memory range for PCH exceeded; please recompile with a command line option of '-Zm111' or greater
Info c1xx: fatal error C1076: compiler limit: internal heap limit reached; use /Zm to specify a higher limit
Info c1xx: error C3859: virtual memory range for PCH exceeded; please recompile with a command line option of '-Zm111' or greater
Info c1xx: fatal error C1076: compiler limit: internal heap limit reached; use /Zm to specify a higher limit
Info c1xx: error C3859: virtual memory range for PCH exceeded; please recompile with a command line option of '-Zm111' or greater
Info c1xx: fatal error C1076: compiler limit: internal heap limit reached; use /Zm to specify a higher limit
Info BattleTank.generated.cpp
Info c1xx: error C3859: virtual memory range for PCH exceeded; please recompile with a command line option of '-Zm111' or greater
Info c1xx: fatal error C1076: compiler limit: internal heap limit reached; use /Zm to specify a higher limit
Info ERROR: UBT ERROR: Failed to produce item: C:\Users\\Documents\Repos\BattleTank\Binaries\Win64\UE4Editor-BattleTank-379.dll
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Hey Alphyte-

Please try the solution provided by Langley here:

Error C3859: virtual memory range for PCH exceeded - C++ - Epic Developer Community Forums .

This after generating project files you should be able to compile in Visual Studio without errors.

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Hey -

Have you tried the 's answer from the link I provided at the bottom of the page? Let us know if you are still getting this error after following those steps.

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Getting this in 4.16, quite regularly now and it’s making bulding a nightmare.
1> Distributing 14 actions to XGE
1> --------------------Project: Default-------------------------------------------
1> PCH.ECGame.cpp (0:38.34 at +0:00)
1> ECGame_OrbManager.cpp (0:01.51 at +0:38)
1>c1xx : error C3859: virtual memory range for PCH exceeded; please recompile with a command line option of ‘-Zm148’ or greater
1>c1xx : fatal error C1076: compiler limit: internal heap limit reached; use /Zm to specify a higher limit
1>
1> Error executing C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\amd64\cl.exe (tool returned code: 2)
1> ---------------------- Done ----------------------
1>
1> Rebuild All: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped

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If you ever see this error, one cause might be that your hard drive is too full. Try freeing up space on your hard drive then trying again. Worked for me.

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I know this is quite late for a reply, but I´m just doing the Tutorial as well and for me I got the error because in the video we didnt make a declaration for GetPowerToWin, so for whatever reason the compiler went a little crazy and gave me the compiler limit error. after i made a simple declaration everything was just fine.

Sometimes the compiler gives misleading errors, so you need to look closely and think what you changed since the last compile :wink:

Edit: OR…just watch the next video in my case…

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Since I found this issue, I’d just add that the path to this file for me was
C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.20\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\Platform\Windows

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problem fixed here : The paging file is too small for this operation to complete |failed to create virtual memory for pch - YouTube

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Hey guys

I had the same issue and after some investigation I have better solution (it works for me)
I did your actions and it was helpful and engine was successfully compiled from source without any errors

hmoda_12 posted video where the guy fixing the issue adjusting swap file settings
Probably for engine build it will not be enough (for large very projects as well)

I have CPU Ryzen 9 3900X and 32Gb RAM
For people who don’t know it’s 12 cores CPU (24 threads in total)
To build engine I did your solutions to fix the issue but it was not enough for me and I also did configuration to use 12 threads only instead of 24

But everything is much easier
Just let system to manage your swap file size
So I reverted all changes to use all 24 threads to use maximum available performance
My swap size peak was 15Gb during engine building
I have SSD so for me it was pretty fast even with swap

Swap probably is not good idea for SSD but anyway it was a solution and successfully built engine
I also checked SSD state with CrystalDiskInfo, for last 4 years I lost just 13% of disk health so I think even with swap it will be enough for 6-8 years more

Good luck!