Solved RAM usage too high

[Hawky222]

Hello, I've been having this problems for about 3 months now. First with Windows Vista ( I thought upgrading might solve the problem )

I don't know if there is something wrong with my PC because it seems to use a lot of RAM, On start up I get 40% usage.
But the real problem is that I just bought a new PSU and GPU to play BF3, and I can't even play for 1 match without the PC freezing and forcing me to unplug the power cable.

I have tried using memtest86+ and Windows memory diagnostic, but there's no problems.

PC Start up:

Playing for 5 minutes. ( Goes up to 80% then freezes.)

On load-screen.

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I really hope someone can help because frankly I've had enough of this bulls***.
PC Specs:
CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
GPU - HD 7750
RAM - 4GB DDR2
PSU - B-move 600w
OS - Windows 7 Ultimate x64

 

[whs]

It is hard to tell from the pics. Looks like this bf3.exe from Battlefied is growing.

Can you post pictures of Resource Monitor > Memory tab (the colored bar) at various stages. That will be more telling.

 

[Indianatone]

Hi,
Looks like you are running out of ram and the game you are playing is loading into ram for faster game play and no drive swapping. If you have ram windows will use it all up in intensive operations. Do you have the page file disabled or set too small? This will cause this behaviour.
Tony

 

[Hawky222]

It is hard to tell from the pics. Looks like this bf3.exe from Battlefied is growing.

Can you post pictures of Resource Monitor > Memory tab (the colored bar) at various stages. That will be more telling.

In-game and idling ?

 

[Hawky222]

Hi,
Looks like you are running out of ram and the game you are playing is loading into ram for faster game play and no drive swapping. If you have ram windows will use it all up in intensive operations. Do you have the page file disabled or set too small? This will cause this behaviour.
Tony

I have Virtual Memory set to 10000MB.

 

[whs]

It is hard to tell from the pics. Looks like this bf3.exe from Battlefied is growing.

Can you post pictures of Resource Monitor > Memory tab (the colored bar) at various stages. That will be more telling.

In-game and idling ?

That would be good.

 

[Indianatone]

Try letting windows manage the page file. I suspect with that game it is not enough. I have 16gb of ram and windows gives me a 16gb page file. I used to tinker with these settings but it turns out Windows 7 really does know what it is doing.

 

[Hawky222]

It is hard to tell from the pics. Looks like this bf3.exe from Battlefied is growing.

Can you post pictures of Resource Monitor > Memory tab (the colored bar) at various stages. That will be more telling.

In-game and idling ?

That would be good.

Just in.

10 mins in.

Idle

 

[Indianatone]

Yes, you only have 50 odd mb left. You are out of memory actual and virtual. Games can and do need every single oz of memory. To play that game you need to let windows manage your swap file or set it to 32gb.

 

[Hawky222]

I was just wondering what the modified colour is.

 

[Indianatone]

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.

 

[whs]

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.

 

[Hawky222]

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

 

[Indianatone]

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?

 

[whs]

Have a look at this: 9 Tips on How to Force a Blue Screen in Windows - wikiHow

 

[whs]

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.

 

[Hawky222]

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.

 

[Indianatone]

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.

 

[Hawky222]

Have a look at this: 9 Tips on How to Force a Blue Screen in Windows - wikiHow

Well, I can't trigger the BSOD, because nothing responds. It's like my PC is off but the screen still shows the game.

 

[Indianatone]

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.