Question Laptop using 50% ram on startup

[ldotchopz]

Hi,

Laptop Specs:
Razer Blade 17 (2022)
12th Gen intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12800H, 2400Mhz 14 Core
16GB Memory
3070TI Laptop GPU
Windows 11 Home

My laptop appears to be using up to 50% of ram from the total 16gb when i start up my laptop. I don't think it was doing this previously, but I cannot be sure. The things I have done recently are updating the GPU drivers and installing Unreal Engine. I have uninstalled Epic and Unreal engine now but the problem persists.

When looking at my processes there doesn't seem to be enough to add up to the 8gb being used

My tower PC which I have had for 5 years has never had this problem.

Screenshots:

Processes

Performance

Thanks!

 

[Lutfij]

Look through your startup items and disable AutoDesk and Adobe's listings and see if that helps. Speaking of Startup items, might want to pass on an image of the entries you see there. Check to see if your laptop is pending any BIOS updates. Seeing that this is a Razer laptop, might want to see if uninstalling Razer's Synapse affects your ram usage.

 

[ldotchopz]

Look through your startup items and disable AutoDesk and Adobe's listings and see if that helps. Speaking of Startup items, might want to pass on an image of the entries you see there. Check to see if your laptop is pending any BIOS updates. Seeing that this is a Razer laptop, might want to see if uninstalling Razer's Synapse affects your ram usage.

I did go through them already but didn't disable those because i have not had problems on other comps with them installed, but i will try just in case. here is a pic of my start up apps.

apps

 

[geofelt]

And, what is your problem?

Task manager can be misleading if it is used to assess ram use.
Windows manages storage and keeps what it thinks is most useful in ram.
Windows stores unused code in ram in anticipation of quick reuse.
If an app tries to access code that is not currently resident in ram, it needs to fetch it from the page file and write some older data to the page file to make room. That is called a hard page fault and while the fault is not resolved, the app stops dead.
Resolution can be painful if the page file is on a HDD.

In task manager, open the resource monitor/memory tab.
Look at the hard fault rate column.
If you see anything much more than zero, you can use more ram.

 

[Misgar]

My laptop appears to be using up to 50% of ram from the total 16gb when i start up

I have a ten year old dual-core Celeron laptop running Windows 10 in only 4GB of RAM and it spends the first 10 minutes using 80-90% RAM at 100% CPU checking for Windows Updates. RAM use rarely falls below 65% at any time unsurprisingly.

I recommend checking the amount of 'In Use' Memory (green) and the amount of 'Standby' Memory (blue) in Windows Resource Monitor. 'In Use' is the critical part, 'Standby' is just icing on the cake in which Windows stores files you might need (Word, Excel, etc).

On my Windows 10 systems up to 16GB, I have very little 'Free' Memory (light blue), with one quarter shown as 'In Use' and considerably more as 'Standby'. On systems with 64GB RAM, two thirds to three quarters appears as 'Free'.

 

[alceryes]

Hi,

Laptop Specs:
Razer Blade 17 (2022)
12th Gen intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12800H, 2400Mhz 14 Core
16GB Memory
3070TI Laptop GPU
Windows 11 Home

My laptop appears to be using up to 50% of ram from the total 16gb when i start up my laptop. I don't think it was doing this previously, but I cannot be sure. The things I have done recently are updating the GPU drivers and installing Unreal Engine. I have uninstalled Epic and Unreal engine now but the problem persists.

When looking at my processes there doesn't seem to be enough to add up to the 8gb being used

My tower PC which I have had for 5 years has never had this problem.

Screenshots:

Processes

Performance

Thanks!

You have Adobe and AutoCAD programs starting at boot up.
Both of these programs and their accompanying services are notorious for being memory hogs, but, as others have said, unless you're hitting hard page faults or getting above 90% memory used, regularly, there's not really a problem here.
Personally, I have all the autostarts for these types of programs off on my work laptop. Programs autostarting used to be advantageous with the slow HDDs of yesteryear. Nowadays, on fast NVMes and even SATA SSDs, programs can start up so quickly from zero, that autostarts are mostly unneeded. They serve more as data and analytics farming for these corporations than anything else.