[SOLVED] I cant use the full amount of ram.

[I am Tron]

So i got a ryzen based system a couple of weeks back and recently i was playing gta with a friend for 3 or more hours and at the end of 15 mins or so i started having severe stuttering. So i turned on Afterburner and saw that whenever i touched 7gb of ram usage my ram usage will go down to like 6.7 or 6.8 gigs for some reason and that would cause severe stuttering. Then the cycle will repeat for that last 15 mins . So i tried opening tabs in my browser again and again and same happend the second i hit 7gb it drops down. So how do i fix it?
Specs
Ryzen 5 2600
8gb 3000mhz corsair vengeance ram (i have a single stick of ram)
Gtx 1050ti
B450 Tomahawk mobo

 

[WildCard999]

-Limit what you have running in the background

-Upgrade to 16gb of memory.

 

[I am Tron]

-Limit what you have running in the background

-Upgrade to 16gb of memory.

Ye i get that i'm planning to upgrade it in the near future but that doesnt change the fact that i cant use more than 7gb of ram out of 8gb why is that?

 

[SkyNetRising]

i cant use more than 7gb of ram out of 8gb why is that?

Can you show screenshot from Resource Monitor - Memory tab?
Could be some portion of ram is hardware reserved.

 

[WildCard999]

Ye i get that i'm planning to upgrade it in the near future but that doesnt change the fact that i cant use more than 7gb of ram out of 8gb why is that?

Not entirely sure but I would think maybe that last 1gb of ram is partitioned by Windows. Have you tried lowering settings for now until you can get more memory? If so does that help?

 

[I am Tron]

Can you show screenshot from Resource Monitor - Memory tab?
Could be some portion of ram is hardware reserved.

ye sure here it is

https://imgur.com/OZmLrKP

 

[I am Tron]

Not entirely sure but I would think maybe that last 1gb of ram is partitioned by Windows. Have you tried lowering settings for now until you can get more memory? If so does that help?

Ye that could be it but dont u think 1gb is kinda alot for windows? Idk much about this stuff but is it normal for windows to reserve 1gb of ram?

 

[WildCard999]

Ye that could be it but dont u think 1gb is kinda alot for windows? Idk much about this stuff but is it normal for windows to reserve 1gb of ram?

Well 1gb is the min for Win10 32 bit & 2gb min for Win10 64 bit.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-specifications

I would just limit what's running in the background, close websites/Discord/ stuff like that for now until you can get more memory.

 

[I am Tron]

Well 1gb is the min for Win10 32 bit & 2gb min for Win10 64 bit.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-specifications

I would just limit what's running in the background, close websites/Discord/ stuff like that for now until you can get more memory.

Alright then ty.

 

[WildCard999]

Your welcome.

 

[SkyNetRising]

ye sure here it is

Everything looks good there.
You can see it yourself. Only 811MB is free.
That means, there's no artificial 7GB limit. You're using 7.2GB already.