PC High RAM usage Randomly

[mattzter2]

Hey guys,

So, I built this PC in November of 2017 and up until today, it had been running fine. This morning, I was playing No Mans Sky, and all of a sudden, the game was skipping like I was lagging really bad. I checked task manager and was hit with a consistent 99% RAM usage. Which is odd, because that had never happened before with any other game.


I was hoping some of you tech gurus might have some advice. I reset my PC and it went right back to doing the same thing.

Here's my PC specs:

-Ryzen 7 1700 3.8GHZ CPU
-G skill Trident Z 16gb (2 x 8gb) ddr4 3200mhz
-ASUS GTX 1080ti 11gb 1.49ghz GPU
-ASUS b350-f atx MOBO

https://imgur.com/a/j6aS6Ib

 

[anotherdrew]

This sounds like a classic memory leak and when you google "No Man's Sky memory leak", there are a number of posts and they seem to start in late July 2018. I'm guessing there was a patch or something then. Unfortunately, you will have to wait for them to fix this. In the meantime I would consider restarting the game every 30 min - 1 hour or after going through 3-4 load screens.