on a 32bit system, consider using the 3GB switch (procedure differs between Windows XP and later Windows versions)

I enabled the Vue binaries and renderer to be large address aware, meaning they can address the full 32bit 4GB memory range per process. There are tools for this, for example EDITBIN from the Microsoft Visual Studio package. The default setting allows applications to only address 2GB of memory.

I can now render larger ecosystems before my laptop runs out of memory.

 

On 64bit systems I have seen this error message when I ran out of swap space once (I had limited my swap space to a fixed size, which was not enough apparently)