Hello everyone!
I have a dual boot system with win7 32 bit on a HDD and win10 64 bit on a SSD. My GFX card is an used ASUS GTX 1060 6GB OC which is in very good condition.
The past 3-4 months I mainly used the win10 OS and everything has worked fine, no problems at all. In the meantime I barely touched the win7 OS, even if I did so, I haven't experienced anything strange.
However today I saw that MSI Afterburner and GPU-Z shows my GPU uses 2-2,2 GB of VRAM immediatly after I start up win7 while idling on the desktop. Every other stat is normal. (clocks, temps, load, cpu usage, ram usage). I have a single Full HD monitor with 60Hz. On the win10 OS it's only uses 150-210 MB of VRAM which I think is normal.
Things I tried:
Disable hardware acceleration in Chrome
Uninstall Chrome and start up win7 while disconnected from the internet
Malwarebytes scan on both OS (found only on the win7 OS some PUP from a pop-up blocker Chrome extension I don't use anymore because it sucks.)
Reinstall Nvidia drivers using DDU
Checking processes using windows taskbar, process explorer and HWINFO. All shows nothing that would eat up my VRAM. The highest VRAM user is DWM.exe with 42 MB.
Currently I'm clueless. Haven't installed anything for months. Any ideas?
I have a dual boot system with win7 32 bit on a HDD and win10 64 bit on a SSD. My GFX card is an used ASUS GTX 1060 6GB OC which is in very good condition.
The past 3-4 months I mainly used the win10 OS and everything has worked fine, no problems at all. In the meantime I barely touched the win7 OS, even if I did so, I haven't experienced anything strange.
However today I saw that MSI Afterburner and GPU-Z shows my GPU uses 2-2,2 GB of VRAM immediatly after I start up win7 while idling on the desktop. Every other stat is normal. (clocks, temps, load, cpu usage, ram usage). I have a single Full HD monitor with 60Hz. On the win10 OS it's only uses 150-210 MB of VRAM which I think is normal.
Things I tried:
Disable hardware acceleration in Chrome
Uninstall Chrome and start up win7 while disconnected from the internet
Malwarebytes scan on both OS (found only on the win7 OS some PUP from a pop-up blocker Chrome extension I don't use anymore because it sucks.)
Reinstall Nvidia drivers using DDU
Checking processes using windows taskbar, process explorer and HWINFO. All shows nothing that would eat up my VRAM. The highest VRAM user is DWM.exe with 42 MB.
Currently I'm clueless. Haven't installed anything for months. Any ideas?
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