I dont know too much about computers but I know what a memory leak is, im just not sure if I have one, let me explain
A few days ago I was playing World of Warcraft and all of the sudden my frame rate slows to a crawl like 2fps even after closing the program which took forever just being on my desktop was painfully slow. This happened a few times, once or twice i got a BSOD and memory dump etc etc.
But if I reset my computer before I started wow I noticed that this usually didnt happen at all.
I decided to test a different game as Wow is the only game I have installed ( I just reformatted this computer and upgraded from windows 7 32 to 64)
so I installed Call of duty 4: world at war and it was amazing, no more then 10 minutes of playing the multiplayer the same low FPS issue would occur slowing me to an agonizing pace. This time i decided to leave task manager open to see if my physical memory would increase when I windows keyed out as the game was still running it was only about 34 %....
now if it was a memory leak wouldnt that number be a lot higher?
can someone help me out with what this issue might be...it only seems to happen with games.
I also did an Antivirus scan and nothing came up.
I have not installed anything new.
I updated windows after the problem began thinking it might be that my computer isnt up to date.
any ideas on what this might be if its not a memory leak, or if it is a memory leak how do I track it down and fix it.
A few days ago I was playing World of Warcraft and all of the sudden my frame rate slows to a crawl like 2fps even after closing the program which took forever just being on my desktop was painfully slow. This happened a few times, once or twice i got a BSOD and memory dump etc etc.
But if I reset my computer before I started wow I noticed that this usually didnt happen at all.
I decided to test a different game as Wow is the only game I have installed ( I just reformatted this computer and upgraded from windows 7 32 to 64)
so I installed Call of duty 4: world at war and it was amazing, no more then 10 minutes of playing the multiplayer the same low FPS issue would occur slowing me to an agonizing pace. This time i decided to leave task manager open to see if my physical memory would increase when I windows keyed out as the game was still running it was only about 34 %....
now if it was a memory leak wouldnt that number be a lot higher?
can someone help me out with what this issue might be...it only seems to happen with games.
I also did an Antivirus scan and nothing came up.
I have not installed anything new.
I updated windows after the problem began thinking it might be that my computer isnt up to date.
any ideas on what this might be if its not a memory leak, or if it is a memory leak how do I track it down and fix it.