Possible memory leak?

[SgntFlfflz7]

tl;dr having probably memory leaks, again. had this problem with old hardware, but buying new RAM fixed it. Can't afford that, so I'm hoping there's a way to fix it without spending money. Links to Resource Monitor are attached.

Hey guys

Having some hectic issues with my computer at the moment. It's a problem I've had before, but I'm hoping I can fix it without spending any money, like I had to last time. Basically, when my computer gets under ANY sort of stress (opening a simple program like the battle.net client, or even opening Chrome), my Resource Monitor shows 20-30 hard faults for a few seconds before settling back down.

The problem then comes when I open something like Overwatch. Opened the program a few times today, only to be met with several hundred instant faults, lasting a few seconds. Fortunately, this dies down pretty quickly, and goes back to just a couple, until the computer decides to shut down.

For reference, I've attached a few links to show what happens when I open the respective programs.

Battle.net Launcher: https://puu.sh/yuhv5/c643851e73.png

Overwatch: https://puu.sh/yuhwt/cbb920fc68.png

This obviously isn't okay, and I've had this issue before, but I had to buy entirely new RAM to fix that problem, and I'm really not in the financial situation to do that for the foreseeable future.

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium
CPU: Intel i5-4460
RAM 16 GB DDR3
PSU: Corsair VS 650
MOBO: MSI B85-G43 Gaming
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Thanks guys.

 

[Albionm00n]

Greetings!

Are you actually experiencing problems with functionality of your computer as a result? You mentioned above that your computer "decides to shut down", and I am curious if you are experiencing actual crashing issues?

As far as "hard faults" are concerned, the name is a little misleading. It is not really a fault or error of any kind, but rather the name given to the instance when the information needed by a program/app is required to be found on the hard drive (page file/virtual memory) for it was NOT available on physical system memory (RAM). This is very common when opening programs for the first time. As far as I can tell from your images, you have plenty of RAM, and it is only being utilized to the proper degree, so I am having trouble seeing any real problem. I have 64GB of RAM in my system and I still see hard faults when I open programs...in fact, I see them as a result of opening resource monitor itself. Hard faults are normal, you have plenty of RAM, and your usage percentages are normal for the applications you are running...unless you are experiencing actual functionality issues?

Here are a few links to give you more info:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3306202/hard-faults-sec.html

https://superuser.com/questions/907267/hard-faults-with-12gb-of-ram-on-windows-7

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/in-windows-7-what-is-a-memory-hard-fault/1edd5a23-757e-e011-9b4b-68b599b31bf5

I hope this helps!

 

[SgntFlfflz7]

Thanks for the reply Albion!

I'm not having any major functionality issues. Opening programs definitely feels slower than it normally does, but it could entirely be placebo. It's good to hear that hard faults have very little to do with the problem. Just not sure how to narrow down what the issue is.

When I say shut down, I mean hard reset, as if someone had hit the reset button on the desktop itself. Screen goes black, and after a second or two, it starts the boot up sequence again, asking to run in safe mode, etc.

I had a few hours of success last night with no failures, but I took it quite easy, so I'll try and go back to normal usage and see what happens.

Again, thanks for the reply!