High Ram Usages 90%

[Adnro]

I was playing some games and i noticed some lagg i didn't have before. Then i checked my processor was very low usage. But the ram on the other hand shows 90% usage

MSI Z97 Gaming 5
8GB Crosair Vengeance
i7 4790K
GTX 780 MSI 3GB Gaming

 

[Woohoopy]

I think that's quite common now a days, as software inflation increases RAM usage.

It might be time to upgrade to 16 gbs.

To find out what is using your ram, activate task manager by "Ctrl+alt+dlt -> task manager" when playing your game.

Cheers mate, hope this helps.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

RAM / VRAM usage and allocation are two different things, programs and games may "allocate" RAM and set it aside for their usage just cause it's there.

Open task manager / processes tab / View / select columns and add the RAM usage stuff

What else is running ? Chrome is a big RAM eater

 

[audie-tron25]

Do you have Windows 7? I've found Windows Update can act up and start using a crazy amount of CPU &/ RAM. It will be under svchost.exe so if it is the problem, try stopping the Windows Update service via Task Manager.

 

[Tradesman1]

What game - it may have a memory leak. Might be junk in startup taking up RAM. Any other programs running? Could just be the system caching data, it saves data (caches it) in DRAM in case you go back to it soon to keep from having to re-read from disk or re-download

 

[Adnro]

Got windows 10 and it's the RAM not VRAM. Game use 800 - 850 MB ram soo ram is at 93% when playing. My virus scanner is Bitdefender. Yes i have chrome up all the time since i alt + tab a lot.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

I am perfectly aware that you are tracking RAM usage. However, the point I was making is ...there's both RAM and VRAM inside your PC .... both behave identically with respect to the context of the discussion.

A program or game will look at the amount of RAM in your box and allocate an amount for its usage. It is important to make a distinction between allocated and used.

A program or game will look at the amount of VRAM in your box and allocate an amount for its usage. It is important to make a distinction between allocated and used.

Users who stopped Win 7 from constantly nagging about Win10 found themselves waiting hours and hours for WU to perform. This was part of MS's needling trying to push Win 7 / 8 users to Win 10 when they weren't meeting contractual market penetration with partners. A later KB fixed that problem.

On Win 10, the 1st two things one should do upon installing Win 10 are:

1. Turn off Windows ability to install Hardware drivers
http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8013-windows-update-

2. Turn off Automatic Updates.... and you enable / disable when you want to do updates
http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8013-windows-update-automatic-updates-enable-disable-windows-10-a.html

We generally do updates around 48 hours after they come out.

 

[Adnro]

Okay soo i did 1. & 2. and i don't really get what you saying there. What do i need to do or look at there?

 

[Adnro]

For now it seems working 30% when no game running and 45 - 50% when game is running.. Will test more later.

 

[Adnro]

Gets up to 80% 🙁 again

 

[Adnro]

Soo i think i figured it out... Killer Network drivers had a data leak (I used "Poolmon" from WDK to discover this issue then command b in poolmon)