3/4GB of RAM being used while nothing is using it. Slow performance.

Normally my computer will use 1GB - 1.5GB on idle, then when I play a game like World of Warcraft it will go up to around 2.5 - 3.0 and when it closes it comes back down. The past 2 days it hasn't come back down after playing. If i restart it resets but comes back. I tried seeing if maybe it was happening because of a certain amount of time that had past so I restarted my computer, logged in, and just watched a movie or two to see if it still did it and it was at around 80% being used before the end of the 2nd movie.

The only thing i can think of that i installed recently is the Diablo III beta.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

I ran a full scan with Malwarebytes before posting and I downloaded it from the wow website, 100% legit.

I hope this is what you meant heh.

Anyone able to help?

Trichomes said:

Normally my computer will use 1GB - 1.5GB on idle, then when I play a game like World of Warcraft it will go up to around 2.5 - 3.0 and when it closes it comes back down. The past 2 days it hasn't come back down after playing. If i restart it resets but comes back. I tried seeing if maybe it was happening because of a certain amount of time that had past so I restarted my computer, logged in, and just watched a movie or two to see if it still did it and it was at around 80% being used before the end of the 2nd movie.

The only thing i can think of that i installed recently is the Diablo III beta.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

When I add up all of those memory commitments, it doesn't even come close to the "80%" of 4GB that it's reporting in use.

Is your system showing the proper amount of RAM installed?

Yea it says i have 4094 installed which is correct.

My only suggestions at this point would be to boot into safe mode and run an AV scan with whatever AV you're running as well as MalwareBytes to see if something is infected and has become a runaway process. You could also try running "sfc /scannow" from an elevated command prompt in case you've got a corrupted system file (not likely, but possible).

I actually rolled back my video drivers from Nvidia 295.51 to 290.36, both beta drivers, and the memory has been acting normal... so far.