High RAM Usage!

TheJJBman11

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Hi guys,

Recently I have been playing The Witcher 3 and Rust, both require at least 8GB of RAM and I do have 8. However, both games frequently crash with a Windows message warning me of high memory usage.

None of my friends have over 8GB of RAM and yet they can run Rust just fine, I have to put it to the lowest settings to try and get as little usage as possible, even though my computer is objectively better than theirs (except for RAM, which we have the same).

Attached is a picture of my computer at startup, perhaps it's not using too much memory, but my main question is why am I crashing so often?
Task Manager: http://imgur.com/a/47nEi
Resource Monitor: http://imgur.com/a/ZRHGl
Distribution Graph: http://imgur.com/a/xmQqT
Virtual Memory: http://imgur.com/a/qQgIg
 

chassmith

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make sure nothing else is running when playing the game there are a few shoftwears out there that can monitor the game and try and optimize it for you. i would think Crank down the draw distance and texture detail.... put the game as high priority in task manager....
 

TheJJBman11

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I don't entirely understand what you mean about monitoring the pagefile.
I don't really get the last line also.

Thanks for the help, though!