diff --git a/GUI/mainwindow.cpp b/GUI/mainwindow.cpp
index 61299ac..c1e72b7 100644
--- a/GUI/mainwindow.cpp
+++ b/GUI/mainwindow.cpp
@@ -542,8 +542,11 @@ void MainWindow::FindHooks()
 			hookList->setAttribute(Qt::WA_DeleteOnClose);
 			hookList->resize({ 750, 300 });
 			hookList->setWindowTitle(SEARCH_FOR_HOOKS);
-			hookList->setUniformItemSizes(true); // they aren't actually uniform, but this improves performance
-			hooks->push_back(QString(2000, '-')); // dumb hack: with uniform item sizes, the last item is assumed to be the largest
+			if (hooks->size() > 5'000)
+			{
+				hookList->setUniformItemSizes(true); // they aren't actually uniform, but this improves performance
+				hooks->push_back(QString(2000, '-')); // dumb hack: with uniform item sizes, the last item is assumed to be the largest
+			}
 			hookList->setModel(new QStringListModel(*hooks, hookList));
 			connect(hookList, &QListView::clicked, [this](QModelIndex i) { AddHook(i.data().toString().split(" => ")[0]); });
 			hookList->show();
diff --git a/texthook/engine/engine.cc b/texthook/engine/engine.cc
index 8fd290c..d3575ca 100644
--- a/texthook/engine/engine.cc
+++ b/texthook/engine/engine.cc
@@ -16951,7 +16951,6 @@ bool FindPPSSPP()
 				spDefault.minAddress = 0;
 				spDefault.maxAddress = -1ULL;
 				spDefault.padding = (uintptr_t)probe - 0x8000000;
-				spDefault.maxRecords = 500'000;
 				spDefault.hookPostProcessor = [](HookParam& hp)
 				{
 					hp.type |= NO_CONTEXT | USING_SPLIT | SPLIT_INDIRECT;
diff --git a/texthook/engine/match64.cc b/texthook/engine/match64.cc
index 9af4c82..371827c 100644
--- a/texthook/engine/match64.cc
+++ b/texthook/engine/match64.cc
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ namespace Engine
 					spDefault.minAddress = 0;
 					spDefault.maxAddress = -1ULL;
 					spDefault.padding = (uintptr_t)probe - 0x8000000;
-					spDefault.maxRecords = 500'000;
 					spDefault.hookPostProcessor = [](HookParam& hp)
 					{
 						hp.type |= NO_CONTEXT | USING_SPLIT | SPLIT_INDIRECT;
diff --git a/texthook/hookfinder.cc b/texthook/hookfinder.cc
index 1fdac19..c96fb00 100644
--- a/texthook/hookfinder.cc
+++ b/texthook/hookfinder.cc
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ namespace
 {
 	SearchParam sp;
 
-	constexpr int MAX_STRING_SIZE = 500, CACHE_SIZE = 0x40000, GOOD_PAGE = -1;
+	constexpr int MAX_STRING_SIZE = 500, CACHE_SIZE = 749993, GOOD_PAGE = -1;
 	struct HookRecord
 	{
 		uint64_t address = 0;
@@ -198,8 +198,10 @@ void SearchForHooks(SearchParam spUser)
 
 		sp = spUser.length == 0 ? spDefault : spUser;
 
-		try { records = std::make_unique<HookRecord[]>(recordsAvailable = sp.maxRecords); }
-		catch (std::bad_alloc) { return ConsoleOutput("Textractor: SearchForHooks ERROR (out of memory)"); }
+		do
+			try { records = std::make_unique<HookRecord[]>(recordsAvailable = sp.maxRecords); }
+			catch (std::bad_alloc) { ConsoleOutput("Textractor: SearchForHooks ERROR: out of memory, retrying to allocate %d", sp.maxRecords /= 2); }
+		while (!records && sp.maxRecords);
 
 		uintptr_t moduleStartAddress = (uintptr_t)GetModuleHandleW(ITH_DLL);
 		uintptr_t moduleStopAddress = moduleStartAddress;