8GB memory getting used while playing games(windows says)

[FunkyFeatures]

I have 8 gb ram, i played minecraft with shaders, when suddenly, windows warned me about having too little ram. I tried allocating more ram for minecraft, as i saw in task manager, that i was only using about 60%.I still crashed because of ram, and windows still said i needed more ram. Why does it do that? I do not use it all, and i am not even "spiking" at 8gb. Should i upgrade for more ram? or should i try lowering shader settings?

 

[darthur18]

An upgrade in RAM won't be needed. Does windows show that you have 8gb of ram installed?

 

[FunkyFeatures]

Yes

 

[darthur18]

In task manager go to the processes tab and see what is taking up the most memory. There might be some unwanted programs running in the background you don't know about. Also when you click on the start button type in msconfig and hit enter. There you can select what programs that start on bootup. There might be a few there they you are unaware of.

 

[FunkyFeatures]

I tried - The only intensive thing was minecraft(2.5gb) and netflix(.5gb)

 

[darthur18]

It could also be referring to video ram. Are you using a dedicated card or on board graphics? A dedicated card should not have any problems

 

[FunkyFeatures]

3gb vram should be enough. I havent tried monitoring it though. Also - If i were to run out of vram, wouldnt it just use dram? And another thing - Minecraft barely uses any gpu/vram power