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RAM - have to close applications due to usage being to high?

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September 29, 2014 12:05:01 PM

Hello,

This has never happened to me before apart from yesterday and today. It happens whenever I play Watchdogs or Dead Rising 3. My physical memory usage is at 31% idle with standard applications open such as Google Chrome and Steam. Whenever I play games, my physical memory usage reaches 55% and even higher. It goes up to 5.76GB being used and has to close the game to prevent crash.

I don't know what is causing that to happen and hopefully someone will have the answer!

My setup below if that is of any help:

i7 4770k
TeamGroup Vulcan 2400Mhz 8GB
GTX 780
120GB SSD
320GB HDD
1TB (RAID 0 500GB)
MSI G45
Corsair RM 750w
Win 7 Pro SP1

Picture of physical memory/processes

http://imgur.com/S4cIzhK,ezYIkax

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September 30, 2014 10:18:06 PM

How large is your page file? Have you scanned for virus and malware...might want to close unneeded programs when playing, Chrome can take a fair amount, also check startup and clean out unneeded items
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October 8, 2014 5:51:24 PM

Chrome is using close to half a gig of ram. , a little over 473MB. Close it while playing games. It is very easy to reopen last session and all of your open web pages will be back.
Also flash and jave eat a lot of cpu cycles. Even if you have chrome minimized. they are still running.
Also you should not run out of memory if your page file is set properly. windows will use the hard drive as Virtual Memory when needed. So you have your page file set too low or turned off. Set it to windows managed size since you have 8 gigs of ram. It will claim 3 to 4 gigs of hard drive space to begin with and increase as needed.
Or you cam set it to run from your fastest hard drive or SSD if you like, but then set it to a set size of 12 gigsfor minimum and maximum so it will allot a large intact portion of the hard drive instead of broken into fragments. The fragmentation does not matter on a SSD.
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