Too much RAM being used !!

[JamesAtari]

I have 8gb of RAM installed and it has been working fine for 10months+, but within the past few weeks, task manager says that im using 85%+ while i have just a single chrome tab open, i check what proccesses are running within task manager, and there are no applications that are using too much RAM.
I noticed this problem when i was playing bf4 and i started loosing frames hard.
Any help would be great, thanks.

 

[avenseth12]

Download and run MEMTEST. You may have some errors causing the issues. Here is a video that will walk you through the program.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr0aumFW0W8

 

[Dunlop0078]

You could have a memory leak somewhere it should be in the processes tab of task manager somewhere, try to follow this guide and find it. If you cant figure it out post a screenshot of your processes tab in task manager and I will take a look.

http://www.ehow.com/how_6106453_can-computer-memory-leak-problem_.html

 

[Tradesman1]

Did you have other programs open prior to checking, if so it may simply be data that the system is holding in DRAM in case it's needed again, when it gets too full it will write data to the page file if you have one

 

[JamesAtari]

Sorry for the extremely late reply, ive been on vacation for quite a while :3 When i got back , i did a clean install of each of my drives, and reinstalled all my drivers, and it seems to be okay. The only thing is, when i load task manager, my cpu usage is at like 85% for 5 seconds than quickly jumps down to where it should be, i have an i5 4690k, I'm just presuming its a visual glitch and isnt actually running at that usage the whole time as the temps of each core are all perfectly reasonable.
Thanks for the replies btw