Question Constant 60-70%+ of ram usage when idle

[pierredwyer]

Hi, I have a constantly high ram usage which also causes crashes for overwatch, apex legends when I'm playing them.

My specs are:
Processor AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics 3.30 GHz
Installed RAM 8.00 GB (5.86 GB usable)
GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

Would anyone be able to solve this problem?

 

[pierredwyer]

Booting on safe mode

Closed microsoft edge and spotify.

 

[rgd1101]

only 8GB ram and less then 6GB useable because of the igpu. upgrade the ram

 

[pierredwyer]

only 8GB ram and less then 6GB useable because of the igpu. upgrade the ram

Is there any way I can reduce the amount used though?
Also, I have a 16GB stick arriving tomorrow , I just wanted to know if I could improve it.
Thanks for the response

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Hey there,

As @rgd1101 mentioned, 8gb system ram is too short for any machine now. With a few Chrome tabs open, you're already remaining usable ram will dwindle with usage. Most games might only use a few GBs of system ram, but there are many that us upward of 7gb, and even as high as 12gb system ram.

Is it a single stick of 16gb? Ideally you need a 2 x 8gb kit to give you dual channel, which is huge for Ryzen CPU's. It gives a huge boost in performance..

While your crashes may be related to the amount of ram you have, it's possible the single 8gbs you have may be faulty.

You can test this with memtest86+ outside of windows.

In terms of reducing vram usage, you can close out non essential programs/apps that might take up some usage, but being honest, getting more ram will fix your issue I suspect.

 

[pierredwyer]

Hey there,

As @rgd1101 mentioned, 8gb system ram is too short for any machine now. With a few Chrome tabs open, you're already remaining usable ram will dwindle with usage. Most games might only use a few GBs of system ram, but there are many that us upward of 7gb, and even as high as 12gb system ram.

Is it a single stick of 16gb? Ideally you need a 2 x 8gb kit to give you dual channel, which is huge for Ryzen CPU's. It gives a huge boost in performance..

While your crashes may be related to the amount of ram you have, it's possible the single 8gbs you have may be faulty.

You can test this with memtest86+ outside of windows.

In terms of reducing vram usage, you can close out non essential programs/apps that might take up some usage, but being honest, getting more ram will fix your issue I suspect.

Thanks, I have the 8gb already so with the 16gb which arrives tomorrow this laptop will have 24gb ram in total.
I went into my bios and set the UMA buffer size (amount of ram dedicated to the iGPU) to 1gb instead of 2gb so it's freed up another gig and crashes don't happen anymore.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I went into my bios and set the UMA buffer size (amount of ram dedicated to the iGPU) to 1gb instead of 2gb so it's freed up another gig and crashes don't happen anymore.

Set it to smallest value possible. 64MB is plenty for basic 2D mode.
There's no need to reserve whole 1GB to iGPU, when you have a discrete GPU.

 

[testeras]

This isnt normal, my Windows 10 home uses only 1.5gb ram at idle , go into Startup on Task Manager and turn everything off you dont need all software running on startup.
Go to msconfig>services, checkbox hide microsoft services, then unmark everything u dont need.
As you can see Windows in boot mode loads only microsoft system services make it like that in normal mode if you want less ram usage.

I have 8gb ram so if i run example 6-7gb ram game windows services will optimize themselves to use even less ram

 

[rgd1101]

1.5gb? my usually sit at just a bit less than 4GB.

windows will use whatever it need. might use Hdd/sdd for virtual memory.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Thanks, I have the 8gb already so with the 16gb which arrives tomorrow this laptop will have 24gb ram in total.
I went into my bios and set the UMA buffer size (amount of ram dedicated to the iGPU) to 1gb instead of 2gb so it's freed up another gig and crashes don't happen anymore.

When you install the new DIMM check in CPU-z to make sure it's running in dual channel. If not you can send it back for a 2 x 8 gb kit and sell your current ram to offset the cost. Dual channel is worth it.

 

[testeras]

1.5gb? my usually sit at just a bit less than 4GB.

windows will use whatever it need. might use Hdd/sdd for virtual memory.

Yep 1.5 - 2 i have no programs at startup expect amd adrenalin. and i do have 15gb allocated virtual memory for both C and D drives so total 30 lol.