[SOLVED] RAM being used for no reason.

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Colif
So you use 70% with nothing running?

Try a clean boot and see if it changes anything - make sure to read instructions and make sure NOT to disable any microsoft services or windows won't load right - https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows

if clean boot fixes it, it shows its likely a startup program. You should, over a number of startups. restart the programs you stopped to isolate the one that is to blame.

how much ram win 10 uses depends on what you have.
at 32gb of ram, it uses about 8gb at idle
at 16gb in last PC, I seem to recall having about 5gb of usage at idle
at 8gb? um, I never had that amount, previous PC being only 32bit and having 4gb of ram.

it is useable with way...
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what are specs of the PC?
It could be a memory leak, does the ram amount used go down to normal if you close game or stay high? Do you slowly lose ram over the day and a restart fixes it?

Download Process explorer and run it as admin (it comes from Microsoft so its safe)

the default view is tree structure meaning like your task manager screen, it will show what processes are under each service, but unlike task manager, it shows the ram usage of each part so you can see what is eating your ram

Private bytes = Ram + page file usage
Working set = actual ram usage

This page shows what all the colours and headings mean, link at bottom of it shows how to use it to find problems. You can right click preocesses and run an av scan from within the program.
 
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Colif said:
what are specs of the PC?
It could be a memory leak, does the ram amount used go down to normal if you close game or stay high? Do you slowly lose ram over the day and a restart fixes it?

Download Process explorer and run it as admin (it comes from Microsoft so its safe)

the default view is tree structure meaning like your task manager screen, it will show what processes are under each service, but unlike task manager, it shows the ram usage of each part so you can see what is eating your ram

Private bytes = Ram + page file usage
Working set = actual ram usage

This page shows what all the colours and headings mean, link at bottom of it shows how to use it to find problems. You can right click preocesses and run an av scan from within the program.
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gtx 1050
8gb ram
hp 843b (mobo)
i5 8400 2.8ghz
 
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Colif said:
what are specs of the PC?
It could be a memory leak, does the ram amount used go down to normal if you close game or stay high? Do you slowly lose ram over the day and a restart fixes it?

Download Process explorer and run it as admin (it comes from Microsoft so its safe)

the default view is tree structure meaning like your task manager screen, it will show what processes are under each service, but unlike task manager, it shows the ram usage of each part so you can see what is eating your ram

Private bytes = Ram + page file usage
Working set = actual ram usage

This page shows what all the colours and headings mean, link at bottom of it shows how to use it to find problems. You can right click preocesses and run an av scan from within the program.
Click to expand...

and no it doesnt go down if i close siege it goes to 60%-70% not sure why
 
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So you use 70% with nothing running?

Try a clean boot and see if it changes anything - make sure to read instructions and make sure NOT to disable any microsoft services or windows won't load right - https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows

if clean boot fixes it, it shows its likely a startup program. You should, over a number of startups. restart the programs you stopped to isolate the one that is to blame.

how much ram win 10 uses depends on what you have.
at 32gb of ram, it uses about 8gb at idle
at 16gb in last PC, I seem to recall having about 5gb of usage at idle
at 8gb? um, I never had that amount, previous PC being only 32bit and having 4gb of ram.

it is useable with way less but its response times increase since it relies on page file more.

Win 10 can load windows logon screen with only 140mb of ram, but it isn't any good to use, that is just seeing if it loads. By that stage its mostly running off the page file
 
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windows is such a ram hog, 8 gigs is the bare minimum to play games/run semi intensive stuff with nothing open in background. you really need 16 gigs to do any multitasking. still seems a bit high. my testing computer thats sitting next to me right now thats running win 10 latest build has 8 gigs and is at 27 percent ram usage and its burning a blu ray right now nothing open besides some file explorer tabs and burner software. earlier i did get some spikes for no reason and i didn't see any program eating that much, and the antimalware executable built into windows eats some too when it feels like coming out to play. this pc is not connected to any wifi source/network which could be helping to keep ram usage lower. even if there is a problem and you solve it upgrading to 16 gigs will greatly improve multitasking, get it while its still cheap(I think its still a reasonable price last i checked, could be wrong).
 
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keplot said:
Hey guys, could I get some help? I've been playing some R6 recently and I've noticed I run into shuddering a lot. I checked my task manager and realized my ram was hitting 90% ram usage all the time. This is a screenshot of my task manager with R6 open. What is my RAM being used on?

**I have 8GB of RAM.

https://imgur.com/a/O3dbp6A
View: https://imgur.com/a/O3dbp6A


Any help would be appreciated.
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Boot the pc and let it sit for 5 mins.
Open task mgr...............how much ram are you using?

On this w10 pc with 8GB of ram I see 1.5GB in use.
If your seeing much more than that you have too much stuff loading at startup.
Make the startup group skinny.
 
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Well, he had 2 Antivirus and Malwarebytes running, you don't need all that during a game. Don't need Malwarebytes loading with startup, just run it when you need it.

If you know you low on ram, close opera when you play, that gain you 700mb. Windows also uses memory itself that isn't all shown on the task manager due to processes sharing parts. They may over/under report how much they using on there.
You may be only human user but windows has other non human users it uses to do all the processing you ask it to do. System user will often be using more ram than you do, since it is the memory manager among other things. it runs the game. It runs everything you do

The shuddering is because when you low on ram, windows has to run more and more off page file, which is your boot drive, and ssd/hdd are way slower than ram is.

The answer is either get more ram or close more programs before you start.
 
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