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W7 - Apps refuse to use half of my RAM
Hello,
I am on Win 7 x64 with 16GB installed RAM. The whole amount is recognized by the system with no issues. Resmon only shows 80MB as "hardware reserved".
The problem is when I get near 8GB usage, I start getting low memory system warnings, then apps start crashing and so on. Resmon still shows at least 6GB as "standby" at that point.
It does however show very low amounts of "free" memory, altho from what I managed to google, standby and free shouldn't really make any difference in terms of what's available to the apps, as standby is just unused memory containing cached data which may be freely replaced at any point.
One thing to note, I have pagefile disabled completely - not sure if that matters.
Other than that, the system is perfectly stable. No indication of issues with RAM or anything else.
Full specs:
i7 6700K
ASUS Z170-PRO
2x 8GB Kingston DDR4 2400MHz CL12 HyperX Savage Black
Windows 7 x64 Pro
EVGA GTX 1080 FTW
Any input appreciated