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How to Increase Your LUA Memory Limit

Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 1:24 pm
by Static Recharge
LUA is the scripting language used in ESO for both the game itself and the user created add-ons. When the game launches ESO reserves a certain amount of memory (64MB by default) for the scripting language to use. In today's games 64MB is next to nothing and can be used up pretty quick. If you encounter an error that says you're getting close to your LUA memory limit, then you will need to up the limit to avoid getting those errors.

To do this you need to close out of the game completely (including the launcher) and then find your UserSettings.txt file which is located here for Windows machines:

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Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\UserSettings.txt
and here for Mac machines:

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~/Elder Scrolls Online/live/userSettings.txt
Once you have the file open find the line that says:

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SET LuaMemoryLimitMB "64"
and change the "64" to a larger number such as 128, 256, 512 and 1024. If you use a lot of add-ons and have the available system memory I suggest just putting this to 1024 and forgetting about it.

Your finished line should look like this:

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SET LuaMemoryLimitMB "1024"
Save the file and re-launch ESO. Enjoy!

Re: How to Increase Your LUA Memory Limit

Posted: Sat May 27, 2017 9:41 pm
by Uhellig
I was just looking through the file and I don't have that line my UserSettings. Has something changed since the OP?

Re: How to Increase Your LUA Memory Limit

Posted: Sun May 28, 2017 12:12 am
by Static Recharge
From what I understand they have removed this setting from the game with the Morrowind update.