- Feb 18, 2014
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Hi all, iv'e been using windows 8 64bit for about 3 months with this current set up and i never had any issues, when i purchased my SSD i thought it would be a good time to upgrade to 8.1 64bit and since then i have had an issue where my memory would fill up to 100% over the course of a day, sometimes a few hours if i'm gaming. I did a bit of googling and found a lot of people had issues with memory leakage due to GPU drivers so i updated to the latest BETA drivers (9.14.10.01017) which didn't help at all.
I understand there are a few threads about this, but nothing specific to my problem. I opened task manager and none of my apps where using a large amount of my ram, i even got the calculator out and they added up to about 2gb which is pretty normal. I use to be able to leave my computer on 24/7, but now i have to turn my computer off 3-4 times a day (restart doesn't seem to clear the ram) if i try to update my bios to C.1 (recommended for my CPU) in the bios screen it just freezes, iv'e tried using the Live Update feature from MSi in windows, it updates to C.3 and i cant overclock past 3.8GHz and it doesn't fix the problem.
So right now im thinking it could either be Windows 8.1, RAM, GPU or the Motherboard. Id post a screenshot of task manager but i had to shutdown my computer and power it up again just to write this post. Im pretty anal about closing unused apps so it cant be that. The apps i usually have running are MSI Command Center, BitTorrent, MSI Afterburner, Winamp and Killer Ethernet.
Iv'e ran Aida64 for half an hour stressing my RAM and it maxed out at 100% (im assuming thats normal but ive only used Aida64 since the issue started) when i stop the test my memory usage will resume to 2-3Gb.
Right now my memory usage sits at 2300mb which is up from 1500mb when i first booted up, and Pagefile at 3500mb. Im happy to post screenshots at request.
I'm tempted to downgrade to win8 but i thought i might give this a shot first.
As i said all my drivers are up to date, iv'e ran windows update and for the life of my i cant figure it out. I'm willing to try anything.
I appreciate any and all feedback, if anyone can help i will be eternally grateful.
Thanks
I understand there are a few threads about this, but nothing specific to my problem. I opened task manager and none of my apps where using a large amount of my ram, i even got the calculator out and they added up to about 2gb which is pretty normal. I use to be able to leave my computer on 24/7, but now i have to turn my computer off 3-4 times a day (restart doesn't seem to clear the ram) if i try to update my bios to C.1 (recommended for my CPU) in the bios screen it just freezes, iv'e tried using the Live Update feature from MSi in windows, it updates to C.3 and i cant overclock past 3.8GHz and it doesn't fix the problem.
So right now im thinking it could either be Windows 8.1, RAM, GPU or the Motherboard. Id post a screenshot of task manager but i had to shutdown my computer and power it up again just to write this post. Im pretty anal about closing unused apps so it cant be that. The apps i usually have running are MSI Command Center, BitTorrent, MSI Afterburner, Winamp and Killer Ethernet.
Iv'e ran Aida64 for half an hour stressing my RAM and it maxed out at 100% (im assuming thats normal but ive only used Aida64 since the issue started) when i stop the test my memory usage will resume to 2-3Gb.
Right now my memory usage sits at 2300mb which is up from 1500mb when i first booted up, and Pagefile at 3500mb. Im happy to post screenshots at request.
I'm tempted to downgrade to win8 but i thought i might give this a shot first.
As i said all my drivers are up to date, iv'e ran windows update and for the life of my i cant figure it out. I'm willing to try anything.
I appreciate any and all feedback, if anyone can help i will be eternally grateful.
Thanks
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