RAM Maxed out, 31.9GB/32GB Used, Idle, At Startup, etc..

mrtruitt

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As title says, this is a new one for me. I've had this PC for over a year now and reinstalled the OS and everything about three months back to start off clean after getting new video card and RAM sticks. No problems, everything ran smooth, until about four hours ago.

I can't imagine how this is related, but the only change I have made in the past month has been migrating all my Steam and Blizzard game files over to a new SSD I just installed yesterday afternoon. Everything seemed to be running fine with no issues all night (I was using the computer all night). After about six or so hours of play I noticed a game I had played before the migration was lagging sorely and that's when I discovered this. Thinking it was the game I uninstalled it entirely and restarted to no available. I ran an AV just to see and nothing has cropped up. I also checked all drivers and for any Windows updates. While typing this, this is my task manager and resource monitor:

Task Manager & Resource Monitor

Up until this point I had been playing games like Destiny 2 and Ark on max settings, as usual, with no change in performance to seem out of the ordinary. I was doing my usual routine (stream on one screen and game on my primary) which normally my computer tackles without a sweat. I have already disabled all startup services and restarted hoping to catch something hanging. Any suggestions?
 
Solution
Follow the instuctions:
Go to start,
Type in msconfig, press enter,
go to the 'boot' tab,
then press advanced options. make sure the 'maximum memory' is unchecked.

If it already is unchecked, you've got a outdated driver, a virus or a hardware problem.
So uhm just in case anyone with a similar problem finds this, let me light this up:

On November 5th, 2017, I downloaded the Creator's Update for Windows. After that I waited a day and updated all my drivers for video and network. How is this related? Because I rolled my version back by using the native Windows tool for doing so and the problem has corrected itself. My migrated data and hardware changes are unaffected so from what i can tell they were not the culprits. Seems the culprit was the new Windows update and it just now decided to hang up something.
 
On November 5th, 2017, I downloaded the Creator's Update for Windows. After that I waited a day and updated all my drivers for video and network. How is this related? Because I rolled my version back by using the native Windows tool for doing so and the problem has corrected itself. My migrated data and hardware changes are unaffected so from what i can tell they were not the culprits. Seems the culprit was the new Windows update and it just now decided to hang up something.
 
Follow the instuctions:
Go to start,
Type in msconfig, press enter,
go to the 'boot' tab,
then press advanced options. make sure the 'maximum memory' is unchecked.

If it already is unchecked, you've got a outdated driver, a virus or a hardware problem.
 
Solution