RAM usage too high

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  1. Posts : 1,686
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       #11

    Hawky222 said:
    I was just wondering what the modified colour is.
    That will be memory that has been used by windows and the data will be written back to the hard drive at some point. Even though the chart shows standby ram of 1 gb that ram will be full of data which can and is written back to the hard drive swap file.
    This game like a lot of others needs a big swap file either a massive fixed one or let windows manage it. You could make things a little better by adding another 4gb of ram but ddr2 ram is not cheap.:)
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  2. whs
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       #12

    This is not too bad. Indianatone is not quite right - the 'Standby' section (dark blue) is also available RAM. That part contains only cached processes with low priority. Thus you have over 1GB of available RAM after 10 minutes.

    I fail to see why the system would crash under those circumstances. There must be another problem. If you forced a blue screen with the accompanying memory dump, you could post the dump here and some of the experts here may find the real cause of the crash. Post it as a new BSOD problem. Then it gets to the right people.
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  3. Posts : 13
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       #13

    whs said:
    This is not too bad. Indianatone is not quite right - the 'Standby' section (dark blue) is also available RAM. That part contains only cached processes with low priority. Thus you have over 1GB of available RAM after 10 minutes.

    I fail to see why the system would crash under those circumstances. There must be another problem. If you forced a blue screen with the accompanying memory dump, you could post the dump here and some of the experts here may find the real cause of the crash. Post it as a new BSOD problem. Then it gets to the right people.
    And how do i force a BSOD? The PC only freezes
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  4. Posts : 1,686
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       #14

    Hawky222 said:
    whs said:
    This is not too bad. Indianatone is not quite right - the 'Standby' section (dark blue) is also available RAM. That part contains only cached processes with low priority. Thus you have over 1GB of available RAM after 10 minutes.

    I fail to see why the system would crash under those circumstances. There must be another problem. If you forced a blue screen with the accompanying memory dump, you could post the dump here and some of the experts here may find the real cause of the crash. Post it as a new BSOD problem. Then it gets to the right people.
    And how do i force a BSOD? The PC only freezes
    There is only a fixed 10Gb page file so there is nowhere left to write anything to hence the issue. Have you tried letting windows manage your page file before you get in to troubleshooting deeper? :)
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  5. whs
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  6. whs
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       #16

    Indianatone said:
    Hawky222 said:
    whs said:
    This is not too bad. Indianatone is not quite right - the 'Standby' section (dark blue) is also available RAM. That part contains only cached processes with low priority. Thus you have over 1GB of available RAM after 10 minutes.

    I fail to see why the system would crash under those circumstances. There must be another problem. If you forced a blue screen with the accompanying memory dump, you could post the dump here and some of the experts here may find the real cause of the crash. Post it as a new BSOD problem. Then it gets to the right people.
    And how do i force a BSOD? The PC only freezes
    There is only a fixed 10Gb page file so there is nowhere left to write anything to hence the issue. Have you tried letting windows manage your page file before you get in to troubleshooting deeper? :)
    Did you see that he still has more than 1GB of available real RAM. So at the 10 minute mark, there has not been a single byte written to the pagefile.
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  7. Posts : 13
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #17

    Indianatone said:
    Hawky222 said:
    whs said:
    This is not too bad. Indianatone is not quite right - the 'Standby' section (dark blue) is also available RAM. That part contains only cached processes with low priority. Thus you have over 1GB of available RAM after 10 minutes.

    I fail to see why the system would crash under those circumstances. There must be another problem. If you forced a blue screen with the accompanying memory dump, you could post the dump here and some of the experts here may find the real cause of the crash. Post it as a new BSOD problem. Then it gets to the right people.
    And how do i force a BSOD? The PC only freezes
    There is only a fixed 10Gb page file so there is nowhere left to write anything to hence the issue. Have you tried letting windows manage your page file before you get in to troubleshooting deeper? :)
    I changed it to 32GB like you said before.
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  8. Posts : 1,686
    Windows 7 x64 Ultimate and numerous virtual machines
       #18

    whs said:
    Indianatone said:
    Hawky222 said:

    And how do i force a BSOD? The PC only freezes
    There is only a fixed 10Gb page file so there is nowhere left to write anything to hence the issue. Have you tried letting windows manage your page file before you get in to troubleshooting deeper? :)
    Did you see that he still has more than 1GB of available real RAM. So at the 10 minute mark, there has not been a single byte written to the pagefile.
    Yes Sir I did but at that time his problem of freezing is yet to occur, I suspect it happens when windows tries to write back to the hard drive and can't.:)
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  9. Posts : 13
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       #19

    Well, I can't trigger the BSOD, because nothing responds. It's like my PC is off but the screen still shows the game.
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  10. Posts : 1,686
    Windows 7 x64 Ultimate and numerous virtual machines
       #20

    So this happened before you upgraded to Windows 7? You bough a new PSU and Graphics card and this problem started or was it already present? Have you checked the temps of your machine? Is the CPU overheating?
    CPUID - System & hardware benchmark, monitoring, reporting download and post the results please.
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