The memory could not be read and sometimes not be written

[Senior16]

When I'm playing Rust for like 2 hours or something, Rust crashes and it says something like The memory could not be read, I have no idea why this is happening

I tried:
Verifiying game files in steam
updating drivers
doing some research in youtube and nothing

I don't know what happened but a solution would be much appreciated, Have a good day

[DaveLembke]

Appears to be a game bug possibly.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/1500126447393545710/

Have you ruled out your RAM and Hard Drive as potential memory problem areas with Memtest86 run to test system RAM and CrystalDiskInfo used to check Hard Drive Health? Additionally if you have any overclocking going on to go back to normal clocking in case that is the cause with a timing that is acting up if too fast.

If your wondering why a hard drive could be cause, its because hard drives are used for Virtual Memory, so the game installation could be fine, but how memory is written and read from Hard Drive or SSD back to RAM can cause problems if the drive health isnt quite right.

[Senior16]

Appears to be a game bug possibly.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/1500126447393545710/

Have you ruled out your RAM and Hard Drive as potential memory problem areas with Memtest86 run to test system RAM and CrystalDiskInfo used to check Hard Drive Health? Additionally if you have any overclocking going on to go back to normal clocking in case that is the cause with a timing that is acting up if too fast.

If your wondering why a hard drive could be cause, its because hard drives are used for Virtual Memory, so the game installation could be fine, but how memory is written and read from Hard Drive or SSD back to RAM can cause problems if the drive health isnt quite right.

Some people got rust to crash also, It's a game bug probably, and Btw I installed crystaldiskinfo and the health is caution, What does it mean? and How do I fix it?

[DaveLembke]

Caution means that the drive is unhealthy or damaged.

 Please create a snapshot of the results and share that here and we can point out where the issue is.

Right now if you have any important data on the system, I would back it all up to an external drive which is also hopefully healthy or cloud storage such as Google Drive where you can store 15GB of data for free to prevent data loss if it gets worse or completely dies.

[patio]

In this case not a game bug...it's the HDD.

[Senior16]

I turned the sectors count to 0 from 1 and the health turned to good

[DaveLembke]

That doesnt heal a damaged hard drive though. Exceptions can be made for an allowance in crystal disk to make it say good even though not exactly good.