Quite insane amount of RAM and Pagefile usage at startup.

Dawis67_AE

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Hello.

I have just reciently noticed, after trying to tweak my Squad settings, that the memory is shooting high. And when i say high i mean i have 8gb RAM and at the startup, when i havent opened a single programm besides Afterburner to look at the memory stats, i have RAM usage of 6gb and Pagefile usage of 8gb. Is it just me or that is insane? I dont usually look at my memory a lot so wont be able to say when this started happening, but clearly the RAM is limiting some things here.

My startup programms havent changed a lot. Im a gamer so my PC starts up with Steam and Origin, Skype, Intel stuff, Nvidia stuff and Razer Synapse. This has been on my PC for the life span of it.


I need help with this. Its not normal.

Here is a screenshot of the absolute startup. http://prntscr.com/9v8f38

Update:

I wouldnt say that the problem is resolved but there is definently a twist to it. After trying to indentify a possible memory leak with poolmon, i found out that the process using most memory was using only like 0,3gb. Then i ran Malwarebytes test and removed CheatEngine setup i had for long time (dont think this had any effect). Then the same time i ran GTA V with many graphics mods just to see how much i could push the system and ended up having RAM usage of 7,9gb and PageFile usage at 16gb. Then i exited the game and the RAM dropped to 6gb and PFusage to 9gb, but the RAM was slowly climbing up.

Anyhow, i restarted my PC after the PC scan and just for the sake of it opened task manager and the PC fully set up used only 2gb of RAM total....But then it was 6gb. The difference was that when i got 6gb at startup i powered my PC down and turned it on again, where the time i got 2gb usage at startup, the PC restarted.

Still not sure what the cause for the 6gb spike was....

 

Dawis67_AE

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Ok guys, an update.

I wouldnt say that the problem is resolved but there is definently a twist to it. After trying to indentify a possible memory leak with poolmon, i found out that the process using most memory was using only like 0,3gb. Then i ran Malwarebytes test and removed CheatEngine setup i had for long time (dont think this had any effect). Then the same time i ran GTA V with many graphics mods just to see how much i could push the system and ended up having RAM usage of 7,9gb and PageFile usage at 16gb. Then i exited the game and the RAM dropped to 6gb and PFusage to 9gb, but the RAM was slowly climbing up.

Anyhow, i restarted my PC after the PC scan and just for the sake of it opened task manager and the PC fully set up used only 2gb of RAM total....But then it was 6gb. The difference was that when i got 6gb at startup i powered my PC down and turned it on again, where the time i got 2gb usage at startup, the PC restarted.

Still not sure what the cause for the 6gb spike was....