Ram being used for no reason!

[Guest]

Hey guys just wondering if I can get some help, i've been playing gta lately and i've noticed that i run into studdering quite a bit, once I checked out my computers performance i realized my ram was hitting max 16gb all the time.

here is a SS of my memory usage, what could be causing this? the biggest thing running is gta and it takes no more than 2-3 where is that other 13 coming from??

http://postimg.org/image/ei1on9va1/full/

Any help is appreciated! if it helps, I just recently put this mobo/cpu/ram together.

 

[i7Baby]

Do a virus scan.

 

[Pinhedd]

Hey guys just wondering if I can get some help, i've been playing gta lately and i've noticed that i run into studdering quite a bit, once I checked out my computers performance i realized my ram was hitting max 16gb all the time.

here is a SS of my memory usage, what could be causing this? the biggest thing running is gta and it takes no more than 2-3 where is that other 13 coming from??

http://postimg.org/image/ei1on9va1/full/

Any help is appreciated! if it helps, I just recently put this mobo/cpu/ram together.

Hi,

Please post a screenshot of "Task Manager -> Memory -> Performance" and tell us the make/model of your motherboard

 

[el_Fenix7]

Download and run Malwarebytes. It should catch anything lurking on your system. A virus/unwanted program is the most likely cause.

 

[Guest]

Didn't detect anything, any other ideas?

 

[i7Baby]

Provide info from Task Manager, Performance (per Pinnhead) and Resource manager.

What virus scan software did you use?

 

[Pinhedd]

Didn't detect anything, any other ideas?

I have a feeling that I know what it is. If my hunch is correct, it's a trivially easy problem to solve. However, I need that information that I requested from you.

 

[Guest]

I attached a resource monitor SS,

heres memory performance:
http://postimg.org/image/y4tz2vfxn/

heres CPU performance:
http://postimg.org/image/lrc9qmhnt/f7af6893/
heres HDD performance:
http://postimg.org/image/pmtb5hsa9/

 

[Guest]

Sry didnt see your request, mobo is gaming 5 by gigabyte.

 

[Guest]

Here is my mobo:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4953

 

[Guest]

I just highly doubt it's a virus, i'm VERY cautious with anything that can give me a virus/malware.

 

[Pinhedd]

Here is my mobo:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4953

Hah, yeah. I thought as much.

The problem is with the Killer E2200 network card that your motherboard includes. The driver is buggy and leaks memory.

Grab the latest driver suite from here, install it, and reboot.

 

[Guest]

Alright, will try and get back to you.

 

[Guest]

Do I even need it? can't I just uninstall my current driver and forget about it?

 

[Pinhedd]

Do I even need it? can't I just uninstall my current driver and forget about it?

If you're not using the NIC at all sure, but if you are, it needs a driver. You'd have to disable it in your motherboard's firmware settings too or Windows will simply reinstall the buggy driver. The problem is in the WHQL driver (the one that ships with Windows or through Windows Update); this version of the driver leaks memory when it interacts with the Network Data Usage driver in Windows Vista,7, and 8. The upstream driver provided by the manufacturer resolves this issue.

 

[Guest]

it seems to have worked! thank you so much! would you happen to know why my hard drive is acting up also? usage goes up to 100% quite often..its not old I bought it about 6 months ago.

 

[Pinhedd]

it seems to have worked! thank you so much! would you happen to know why my hard drive is acting up also? usage goes up to 100% quite often..its not old I bought it about 6 months ago.

That doesn't mean that it's acting up, it just means that the OS constantly has work for it to do over the period that it's measuring. There are many perfectly normal explanations for this. If there are other issues, such as a 20-30 minute boot-time or exceedingly long time to access a single directory or file this may point to hard disk drive failure.