Computer became slow after installed Windows 10 on it

Fbalika1996

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Oct 9, 2016
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Hello there guys,

I run into a problem that I can't solve or even get to know what is causing it. I freshly 'clean' installed Windows 10 on my PC, 64 bit of course about a month ago. Everything was fi... No! Nothing was fine actually (automatic updates, network connection problems etc) But there's a problem that I can't solve. After one week, my PC got unbearably slow, I couldn't even use it for anything, but what was weird already, the problem was not alway there. Like I turned on my PC and I run into this problem 6 out of 10 times. The hdd and RAM are used too much, hdd is often at 100% usage for example. When I open 4 images at the same time to watch them and also there's Google Chrome open in the background, I usually get that Windows has ran out of memory. Once when I played The Crew, I got the same message and once while I played GTA5. I read somewhere that torrents can cause this problem, but back at Windows 7 I had no problems with torrents, also I checked it and without torrent running in the background, I encountered the same problem. I could play Forza Motorsport 6: Apex at stable 30 fps at medium settings with no problem and since the memory problems, sometimes I get like 10 fps and sometimes the game won't even launch.

I checked literally everything (or at least I think so...), that could solve the problem or at least let me know what's wrong. I did ccleaner, defraggler, anti virus, anti malware, hard disk sentinel and memtestx86. I found exactly 0 viruses, malwares and errors. Memtestx86 did 8 passes and found 0 errors. The only thing I can think of is that Windows 10 causes the problem and I already lost faith in Windows 10 weeks ago, but I just don't want to install Windows 7. or at least not yet and I don't want to stuck at Windows 7 for ever. I want to play Forza Horizon 3 (I hate and love Microsoft at the same time, because finally it's on PC but only Windows 10 and no physical copies for PC), but before actually buying that, I'd like to try it out by the demo and I don't really know if the demo will ever come to PC or not, but I want to wait some more time.

My PC:
Intel Core i5 4460 3.2GHz
4x 2GB DDR3-1333 RAM (I want to buy better and more soon, even if there's no problem with them)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 4GB
500GB HDD 5200 rpm

What do you think could solve this memory problem? Also, have you ever meet the same problem on Windows 10?

(Also, sorry for my grammar mistakes, my native language isn't english, but I try to be as good as I can :))
 
Solution
For a few days it seemed like I solved the problem by having the virtual memory set on E: (somehow I have E not D but that's not the case) and not on C: and it worked again like it should. Then today GTA 5 started to do some batshitcrazy things, I got no low memory error but the game dropped fps way too much, sometimes even stopped for a few seconds (while I assume it loaded the map because I was driving fast in the game). I have absolutely no idea what this problem is but I'm seriously thinking about a downgrade to Windows 7. I have had enough of Windows 10 and its bullshit. Just in case, the graphics settings are even way lower than what Nvidia FeForce Experinece wants me to use... But that was the case back on Windows 7 as well, but...

Fbalika1996

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Oct 9, 2016
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I had to restart my pc 2 times today, because the first 2 times it was slow and unusable again. Then for the third time I played some GTA 5 twice today, the first time I got the low memory thing and the game crashed. Second time I used msi afterburner to see what exactly happens during gaming. GPU mem was around 3,3GB all the time (which is funny, I have my graphics set to around 2GB), RAM started at 4,4GB and went up to 6GB and stopped there and my CPU was used around 80%, all 4 cores. Then the game crashed again with no low memory window pop up.
 

Fbalika1996

Commendable
Oct 9, 2016
7
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1,520
For a few days it seemed like I solved the problem by having the virtual memory set on E: (somehow I have E not D but that's not the case) and not on C: and it worked again like it should. Then today GTA 5 started to do some batshitcrazy things, I got no low memory error but the game dropped fps way too much, sometimes even stopped for a few seconds (while I assume it loaded the map because I was driving fast in the game). I have absolutely no idea what this problem is but I'm seriously thinking about a downgrade to Windows 7. I have had enough of Windows 10 and its bullshit. Just in case, the graphics settings are even way lower than what Nvidia FeForce Experinece wants me to use... But that was the case back on Windows 7 as well, but at least on Win7 the game ran at a fix 60 fps with no problems)
 
Solution

Fbalika1996

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Oct 9, 2016
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There was a Windows Update on oktober 18th and I realised, since then my PC uses 7,3GB RAM all the time for absolutely no reason or at least msi afterburner tells me this and my PC used 6,6GB RAM while playing GTA5 before the update. F**k these Windows Updates man...