Super high RAM usage while gaming after a day

[adavid]

First of all, hi, and thanks for helping me with my problem.

I've been experiencing a strange issue with RAM usage after a day of using the PC.

What I mean is when the end of the day kicks in, im starting to see strange studdering in my cs go matches, and audio pops (and stops) every once in a while. adding to that, every time I alt-tab out of cs go to get to chrome, it takes some time to get out, and a TON of time getting back it. but the wierdest thing about this is that when I check the RAM usage in the task manager, the highest usage from a process is the OS itself, but it's using only 200MB, with chrome and cs go trailing behind at 100-150MB.

A system restart usually fixes it, but its inconvinient while in a match.

when im playing my game, I have some chrome tabs open (not a ton), and one of them playing music. I also have task manager open (to monitor RAM usage), and CS:GO.

I hope you can assist me with my problem...

General system specs:
OS: Fresh install of windows 10 pro (With some games and basic software installed).
CPU: i7 4790k @ stock.
RAM: 8GB (2x4GB) 1600MHz G.SKill sniper series.
GPU: MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G.
(If you need anything more, just say so 😉 )

 

[JackNaylorPE]

My 3 sons have spent the better part of a year pushing me into Chrome.... now they are all back on Firefox. For me it was the data collection / anti privacy / tracking stuff (now Windows 10 does the same thing) ... but it seems a lot of problems go away when Chrome is outta the picture.

Do this

Open task manager, hit processes tab / view in menu bar / select columns and add the memory ones. Pick the memory you want to look at and rank them from most to least by clicking on column header. Over time, tab out and look at what's at the top of the list. Close what you don't need, one by one or in bunches to narrow down the cause of the problem.

 

[adavid]

My 3 sons have spent the better part of a year pushing me into Chrome.... now they are all back on Firefox. For me it was the data collection / anti privacy / tracking stuff (now Windows 10 does the same thing) ... but it seems a lot of problems go away when Chrome is outta the picture.

Do this

Open task manager, hit processes tab / view in menu bar / select columns and add the memory ones. Pick the memory you want to look at and rank them from most to least by clicking on column header. Over time, tab out and look at what's at the top of the list. Close what you don't need, one by one or in bunches to narrow down the cause of the problem.

http://imgur.com/Ftx9A2g

this is my current state, doing what you said. I will note that this is about 15 minutes after the last restart. you can see that nothing is really tasking it, although its hitting 50% usage...

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Well that makes it harder but my approach is to start at the top and do a Yahoo search on each process and find out exactly what each one does..... then go about closing them until I figure out which one is the offending ah heck and permanently disabling it.