Help!! Very high memory usage.

[GlenicoNico]

So i was just playing BF4, everything runs smooth (playing at 55 FPS average and never go below 35.). One match is over, and the next match starts, nothing happened for 5-10 minutes. Then i started to notice lag, but i kept playing. As I'm playing my FPS keeps dropping until around 18 FPS. I was like "WTF is going on?!?!". I open task manager and this showed up ( https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/100257445638519743634/albums/6005238256817697809/6005238257874699250?pid=6005238257874699250&oid=100257445638519743634 ), i don't know why is my RAM usage is so high, I've been playing this game since 2 days after the release and never had this problem before. So i closed the game and this show up in the task manager ( https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/100257445638519743634/albums/6005237478836153201/6005237484922825474?pid=6005237484922825474&oid=100257445638519743634 ), i was confused why is the RAM usage still high. At that i point i know that the game is not the one causing the problem, but what is the one causing the problem? is not the game, right?

My temperatures are more than "OK". I'm running Windows 8.1 (everything is up-to-date including my GPU drivers).

 

[Entomber]

it's possible that some processes not being shown are eating up your RAM. Try showing all system processes and all processes from all users in Task Manager.

 

[GlenicoNico]

it's possible that some processes not being shown are eating up your RAM. Try showing all system processes and all processes from all users in Task Manager.

How? it's different here in Windows 8.1

 

[jshoop]

how much ram do you have in your computer?

 

[GlenicoNico]

how much ram do you have in your computer?

8gb, i know it's not much, but more than enough for gaming.

 

[GlenicoNico]

Never mind guys, i just fixed it (at least i think i did). The game is running smooth now. 😀

 

[kingstonhq]

Hi, I'm Jewel with Kingston Technical Support. It doesn't look like you are using anymore than 2GB of memory, so that makes me think something could be wrong with your memory. Have you checked to see if all your memory is being recognized properly? It's possible one module went bad or stopped being recognized for some reason.

Windows 8 groups processes by application name in the Processes tab. If you go to the Details tab you can see each individual process that is running which would tell you more specifically what is using up the memory.

 

[jshoop]

i was thinking the same thing as kingston support, it looked like you were running 2gb of ram, thats why i asked. 8gb is plenty for gaming. I have 3gb in my pc right now and i can play some games (older ones) at good fps and settings. (its an older computer)

 

[kingstonhq]

What was the issue? just asking out of curiosity.

 

[GlenicoNico]

Hi, I'm Jewel with Kingston Technical Support. It doesn't look like you are using anymore than 2GB of memory, so that makes me think something could be wrong with your memory. Have you checked to see if all your memory is being recognized properly? It's possible one module went bad or stopped being recognized for some reason.

Windows 8 groups processes by application name in the Processes tab. If you go to the Details tab you can see each individual process that is running which would tell you more specifically what is using up the memory.

It's all good now, thanks for your time

 

[GlenicoNico]

What was the issue? just asking out of curiosity.

Basically all i needed to to was go to File Explorer -> System Properties -> Advance System Settings -> Advanced -> (under "Performance") Settings -> Advanced -> (under "Vitual Memory") Change -> tick "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives"

I think it fixed the problem (lets hope so). Why do i have to tick that? what does that do?

 

[kingstonhq]

Ah I see. Here's an article that explains it: http://lifehacker.com/5426041/understanding-the-windows-pagefile-and-why-you-shouldnt-disable-it

 

[GlenicoNico]

Ah I see. Here's an article that explains it: http://lifehacker.com/5426041/understanding-the-windows-pagefile-and-why-you-shouldnt-disable-it

Thanks !!

 

[GlenicoNico]

Guys it's happening again... 🙁

 

[jshoop]

can you access your bios and check to see if a memory stick has failed? if it shows every stick is installed as it is then i suggest running this program called memtest. you download it and burn it to a cd, then put it in your computer and restart it. click a key when it says book from cd. allow it to run for a little bit, itd be best to do overnight. If theres a bunch of errors, then a memory stick is probably failing/failed. then you have to individually test the sticks to find out which one it is i think, i dont think memtest checks each stick individually, only as a whole

EDIT: heres the website: http://www.memtest.org/

 

[GlenicoNico]

can you access your bios and check to see if a memory stick has failed? if it shows every stick is installed as it is then i suggest running this program called memtest. you download it and burn it to a cd, then put it in your computer and restart it. click a key when it says book from cd. allow it to run for a little bit, itd be best to do overnight. If theres a bunch of errors, then a memory stick is probably failing/failed. then you have to individually test the sticks to find out which one it is i think, i dont think memtest checks each stick individually, only as a whole

EDIT: heres the website: http://www.memtest.org/

Ahh, I'm so stupid!! When i tick the "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" yesterday, i forgot to restart my PC, so when i turn it on again, I have to tick it again -_-

Sorry if I wasted your time