OpenAI Gym Atari environment crashes on Windows 10 after 30 seconds

I’m having trouble getting Atari games to work properly with OpenAI Gym on my Windows 10 system. I found a tutorial about training a neural network to play Atari games using policy gradients, and I copied the code to try it out.

The main issue is that when I try to test the Atari environment with this simple code:

import gym
game_env = gym.make('Breakout-v0')
game_env.reset()
for step in range(1000):
    game_env.step(game_env.action_space.sample())
    game_env.render('human')

The program runs for about 30 seconds and then crashes completely. I’m not sure what’s causing this problem. When I run the full training code from the tutorial, it works but doesn’t show the actual game graphics, just the training results.

I’m using Windows 10 32-bit with Python 2.7.6 installed. Has anyone else experienced similar crashes with Atari environments on Windows? Any suggestions on how to fix this would be really helpful.

yeah, that happens if there’s not enough memory. try putting time.sleep(0.01) between each step. also, python 2.7 is kinda old, switching to python 3 might help. that 32-bit version could be a problem too.