I've tried pretty much everything and am at wits end, hopefully someone here will have a fix for my problem.
When I upgraded to Win10, I was already educated on the memory leak driver problem some people were experiencing, so I went into it with that knowledge and the tools to fix it. The moment I upgraded I reinstalled a few of the problematic drivers that people were complaining about and hoped for the best.
However, the memory still skyrocketed. I now boot up with 60-70% of my memory being used, and am running at a constant 70-90% even with nothing but Firefox open. When trying to game like I used to, which was completely smooth one medium graphics, I'm running 90-100% of memory AT ALL TIMES even with no other processes and lowest possible graphics. This is incredibly unusual. Before the upgrade however, it was completely fine. I would boot up with a normal 20-30% memory and shoot up to 40-50% when using only Firefox. Gaming ran between 60-90% memory depending on how many processes I had open and how good I had the graphics.
I've reinstalled my graphics drivers (five times now), reinstalled the audio drivers, reinstalled the webcam drivers. I've contacted HP and they took over my computer and ran a full scan, found nothing, reinstalled drivers (again) then rebooted my computer and never got back to me. I have the Windows 10 Driver kits installed and have run poolmon, and the leak has since gotten much worse. The tags on the first page mostly lead to atikmdag.sys, ntfs.exe, and watchdog.exe. At least those were the ones that came up most often throughout the tags. I'm not sure where to go from there. I have screenshots of my current PC state, where the "System" process is taking up most of the memory, and also to most recent poolmon check which has gotten worse.
If the only solution is to find a way to downgrade, I guess I'll do what I must. The computer is hardly functional anymore. I'm disappointed in this upgrade to say the least.
SPECS:
HP Notebook 15-g020dx
4GB RAM
AMD Radeon HD 8400
Windows 10 64 Bit
If you need more specs let me know. Help is greatly appreciated! I'm entering college and need this thing to function properly, especially for my freelance art business on the side.
When I upgraded to Win10, I was already educated on the memory leak driver problem some people were experiencing, so I went into it with that knowledge and the tools to fix it. The moment I upgraded I reinstalled a few of the problematic drivers that people were complaining about and hoped for the best.
However, the memory still skyrocketed. I now boot up with 60-70% of my memory being used, and am running at a constant 70-90% even with nothing but Firefox open. When trying to game like I used to, which was completely smooth one medium graphics, I'm running 90-100% of memory AT ALL TIMES even with no other processes and lowest possible graphics. This is incredibly unusual. Before the upgrade however, it was completely fine. I would boot up with a normal 20-30% memory and shoot up to 40-50% when using only Firefox. Gaming ran between 60-90% memory depending on how many processes I had open and how good I had the graphics.
I've reinstalled my graphics drivers (five times now), reinstalled the audio drivers, reinstalled the webcam drivers. I've contacted HP and they took over my computer and ran a full scan, found nothing, reinstalled drivers (again) then rebooted my computer and never got back to me. I have the Windows 10 Driver kits installed and have run poolmon, and the leak has since gotten much worse. The tags on the first page mostly lead to atikmdag.sys, ntfs.exe, and watchdog.exe. At least those were the ones that came up most often throughout the tags. I'm not sure where to go from there. I have screenshots of my current PC state, where the "System" process is taking up most of the memory, and also to most recent poolmon check which has gotten worse.
If the only solution is to find a way to downgrade, I guess I'll do what I must. The computer is hardly functional anymore. I'm disappointed in this upgrade to say the least.
SPECS:
HP Notebook 15-g020dx
4GB RAM
AMD Radeon HD 8400
Windows 10 64 Bit
If you need more specs let me know. Help is greatly appreciated! I'm entering college and need this thing to function properly, especially for my freelance art business on the side.
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