I only had one studio window open and I’d never seen this message before despite sometimes having five or more studio windows at once. Anyway, I checked task manager and for some reason it looks like this:
Anyway, I looked at my desktop and it showed this so I pressed preceed and it opened up a new studio window but when I tried opening a third studio window nothing showed up and it just didn’t work.
Roblox studio has let me open as many windows as I needed in the past (last time I had multiple studio windows open was probably a few weeks ago) but all of a sudden it doesn’t anymore.
I’m also having this issue and this is definitely a bug as many others are having it outside of bug reports section, although I actually reported this bug before and it seemed to fix itself but for me recently it started to happen again. The bug is also very janky and sometimes I can’t even start studio at all.
Roblox is also doing similar things for me and only lets me have two studio windowsand wont stop showing that stupid popup. i should be able to open more studio windows than IntelliJ idea windows (IntelliJ is way heavier than studio and I can have 3+ open at once) but roblox wont allow me and keeps throwing up those stupid popups.
I’m only using 1.5 more gigs of ram than idle uses… thats enough ram left to run IntelliJ + mod playtest + firefox w/ 2 youtube tabs + the minecraft modpack i forgot i had running in the background without having any ram related issues
edit: also adding that studio has been managing to freeze my background youtube streams when launching since this has been happening, could be related to the “raising minimum requirements” banner thats on the creator hub
I honestly think they should remove this feature, it’s utterly pointless. Only thing that is ok but still annoying is the “Low System Resources” popup.
absolutely agree. I know my system doesn’t like it, but don’t prevent me from doing it. I know I could open more than 2 places with 8gb of ram in the past, but now it just doesn’t let me do it. I’d rather have studio crash
Hi @FedoraFella how much installed RAM are you running with? We’re putting in guards in place to reduce an issue we see where devs have a ton of windows open and dragging Studio (and likely the rest of the machine) to a halt. We’re looking at various settings here trying to strike a balance between likelihood of failure (crash, OOM, 30s+ application not responding) and getting things done.
At the same time, we’re taking some aggressive measures to reduce Studio’s overall memory usage, so we’re turning in line as those fixes are going out (and seeing some great progress in both total memory usage and the resultant errors).
What I’m most concerned about are if we’re seeing reports where these boxes are popping up in unexpected ways - i.e. we’re seeing them when we should’t. If you’re running below recommended spec (<8 GB) you might get it in as little as two windows, but if you have >= 8GB I wouldn’t expect it to pop up as you’ve described. We have a few other checks that aren’t based on RAM that limit the total number of windows that can be run - this is set pretty high (will double check but I believe its over 12) so its possible its not RAM related or there’s a bug.
If others are seeing these, I would appreciate a snap of your task manager like OP has provided to see what the state of the system is at the time this went off. We do see cases of people having really huge numbers of Studio open (like 50!) which is basically setting yourself up for failure. Of course, there’s stuff we don’t know about, like huge pressure coming from games or lots of chrome tabs or whatever, so its always best to run Studio in as isolated an environment as possible if you have a lower amount of RAM.
It wouldn’t be a problem if only this safequard existed if it can really help, but the problem in insane lately studio memory consumption, being almost 2 gb even on absolutely empty place, when it was around 1 gb previously. My device has 8 GB RAM, 4 GB can be used by studio. I was able to open 4 windows, in rare cases when I need to fastly test some stuff, and now I can’t do that.
At the same time, another annoying thing is bad implementation of this safeguard itself. It opens BEHIND all windows, often resulting in us thinking about it not responding at all and having 10 warning windows opened.
EDIT: today something unbeliavable occurred and studio memory usage returned to what it was
Still only 2 windows allowed though.
EDIT x2: looks like it’s caused by roblox crash handler. When it exists, studio memory consumption doubles, but instead of listing it at that handler it listed in main studio window:
Btw, all 3 images are from the same 2 places of my game. The only diffirence is time when I opened them - edit 2 was opened 20 minutes later when I wanted to fix a chat bug.
We’re not accounting for crash handlers here - those should be temporary. The question is, why are you seeing so many? Are you crashing or is Studio hanging a lot?
Edit: to clarify, a crash handler should not be affecting how many Studio windows are open. Only open/active studio windows should be taken into account. Is it possible there are “hung” RobloxStudio processes open anywhere?
Thank you. As I read it, that pop up is coming from just opening the third tab. Same question as the poster above, are you seeing a bunch of roblox crash windows or perhaps “frozen” non-active Studio windows?
They are created almost always, and not dissapear at all. Only way they can be removed is manual process halting or studio closing.
Crash handler doesn’t affect how many windows are open, but instead it affects how much memory single instance of studio consumes. At least that’s what I noticed. Manually halting it won’t change anything though.
