Power BI Desktop WebView2 Out Of Memory

[Anonymous]

Power BI is experiencing a problem with WebView2 running Out of memory. We have identified some of the top causes of this and have the details below. If that does not address your Out of memory problem, contact us at  pbidesktopwebview2issues@service.microsoft.com

Out of Memory cause: 

Custom visuals causing memory leak - If you are using any custom visuals and are running into Out of Memory crahses, please try removing the custom visuals to check if it resolves the issue. If it does, please reach out with the visual which was cauing the memory leak so we can address it. 

If you are not using any custom visuals and are still running into this, it could be due to having a lot of report pages and visuals per page. This causes the browser heap memory to exceed the 4GB limit and crash. This is sadly a limitation of chromium. 

Possible workaround 

• Limit the number of visuals in the report. The recommendation is to split the report into smaller reports and using cross-drillthrough - Use cross-report drillthrough in Power BI Desktop - Power BI | Microsoft Docs.The cross-drillthrough feature carries through filters when using cross drill through.

[komanguy]

Hi everyone,

one solution is at this link : https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Webview2-Process-Failed-Out-of-Memory/td-p/2277120

On my side, I've created a system environment variable before restarting powerbi desktop and it worked!

Environment Variable : "PBI_enableWebView2Preview"
Value: "0"

If everyone else can confirm.

[acao-96]

I have come across the same issue which has been causing me major grief the last few days. I couldn't make any changes to my report since when I try to open up an existing Power BI file, it loads for a few minutes and then crashes with this error before it can finish loading. I'm using the Dec version. Very frustrating. Please advise!

[Mauro_arcila]

Esto sigue funcionando mal!!

[Anonymous]

Hi, it seems that some updates make this trubble. I reinstall the BI, maybe 5x times, then it works. Sometimes there is an update very soon which fixes this. Lukas

[Channing]

Hi,
Just experience this error on desktop. The Power BI froze for about 5 minutes and then it quitted automatically. 

[GosselinGroup]

Sorry ladies, gentlemen of MS:

We are getting this error in Power BI Desktop, by simply clicking on an edit request for a Power Automate script.

So I don't see the link whit Chromium or even Web browsers at all.

[Anonymous]

Just happened again. I was not doing nothing fancy, just editing some dax and suddenly PBI crashed and the Webview error mesage sending to this post showed up.

[work2skiWA]

As GosselinGroup mentioned on 6/15/2022, I too experience this out-of-memory error when (only) using Power BI Desktop to create a Power Automate flow to send an email.

In Edit/Power Automate, when I create a new operation/step after the 'On Power BI button clicked' operation/step, I can successfully select and run the "Send an email notification (V3)" operation/step.

When I create a new operation/step, after the 'On Power BI button clicked' operation/step, I cannot successfully select and run the "Send an email (V2)" operation/step.

Power BI Desktop freezes and, approximately, 10 to 15 minutes later, the following error message displays and Power BI Desktop closes.

[music43]

I have been experiencing the out of memory bug without any 3rd party visuals, and then, while trying the experimental field parameter feature had PBI crash on me...

PBI Version: 2.107.841.0 64-bit (July 2022)

Edge Version 103.0.1264.71 (Official build) (64-bit)

[bradlsco]

I have been experiencing this problem using the Zebra BI Cards version 1.2.0