Problems with xelatex/miktex [Errorcode: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000000] .]

Hey guys!


So i freshly intstalled MiKTeX on my Windows machine (specifics see below) to work on a new project. Usually I do my Latex on my ubuntu distribution (same machine) but this project requires me to work on Windows. So next to miktex I also installed TeXstudio. Now a friend of mine helped me to set everything up so it is exactly the same as everyone else has it working on the project (which is why I have to work on windows in the first place, to ensure consistency). The problem is that I cannot compile the project or any project for that matter. I always receive the error message: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000000] Now I already googled this problem but I couldn't find any solutions that would help. A lot of people suggested to expand the memory size which I did with the following commands (for xelatex, pdflatex, etc): 


initexmf --edit-config-file=pdflatex


I filled in this:


main_memory=5000000 
extra_mem_bot=5000000 
font_mem_size=5000000 
pool_size=5000000 
buf_size=5000000


And ran this afterwards:


--dump=pdflatex


But that was to no apparent effect. So I thought maybe it has to do with the configuration of texstudio so I installed texmaker as well only to find that it would produce the same error message. So then I tried other, significantly smaller older projects. That didn't work either. Then I tried to reinstall miktex (the first time I only had the base version, this time I went for the full thing), still no success. Now you might think well maybe it just IS a big project and my PC just can’t handle it. But that is not the case either. First of all the project is really quite small. It’s just a book with some text in it no figures at all, and even simpler projects won't compile. Second of all my PC is quite powerful and should be able to handle stuff like this easily. As a comparison my friend was able to compile the project in a couple of seconds with her at least five year old laptop which seriously has seen some better days. Also I tried to compile it on my Ubuntu distribution (reminder: same machine) using kile and texlife and what can I say it took like two seconds to compile. So at this point I’m quite certain that this is based on some deeper level complications. So I’m pretty sure I just get this error message without any reason. Has this ever happened before? I really need this problem to be fixed!


Here are my specifics:


Intel Core i5-2500K @3.3GHz

8 GB RAM 

Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 

Windows 8.1 Pro

MiKTeX 2.9.5721 64-bit

TeXstudio 2.10.2



Please help 😊



Cheers,

Marius
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Q: How can I leave the mailing list?
A: See http://docs.miktex.org/faq/support.html#leavingml