high ram usage after a while of idle/ram usage stays high when i exit playing games.

Zabocska

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so i currently have 16gb of ram (4x4gb) in my gaming computer and when i leave the computer overnight to leave it download some big games, and after a while when i check on the computer it becomes really laggy on the desktop, can't even open any windows properly and shows that i have 99% of RAM usage, even though i didn't do anything and i think downloading games won't make my pc THAT slow.. and there are some times when i get fps drops in games, because my ram usage is like 15.8gb which is 99% as well, and it is really annoying. this problem appeared like a few days ago, and i upgraded to windows 10 as well, so there should be no viruses.
 

Zabocska

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i can prove that i have no viruses that i completely deleted everything on the hard disks, and did a clean install of win 8.1 then upgraded it to win 10

also checked the task manager, and it does not show anything that eats my ram.
 

Crixilian

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so you are running windows 10 now?
try run task manager/Details
and show "Peak working set (memory)" column by right click in table title and select coloms
maybe you can find that huge mamory usage process