Ram fills when downloading games to the point that the system slows to a crawl on windows 10

Keontae

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Apr 24, 2016
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My Ram seems to fill completely whenever i download games from steam, origin, uplay etc etc and doesn't seem to be freed until it completely fills which then makes my pc unresponsive where then i have to restart. just wondering if anyone else has had this issue with windows 10? i havent come across any suspicious processes of the sort or any programs even being shown to eat all of my free ram.
 

Colif

Win 11 Master
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Have you changed your page file size at all? Downloads shouldn't be staying in ram long as they get written to hdd almost immediately so the behavior is strange

What was it saving to? an SSD OR HDD? Its possible it was downloading faster than the drive can write at, and windows has to put that information somewhere while it waits, cause the dl won't stop and wait.. so ram fills up.

http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/ram-capping-while-downloading-large-files.212335/
 

Keontae

Commendable
Apr 24, 2016
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1,510


It was saving to HDD i also tried SSD today with the same result
 

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