Which Win10 build & version is the best for me?

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Hi. I've been having a lot of memory leak issues with the current Windows edition on my PC.

 

It's Creators' Update v1703 build 15063.138. Idle memory usage is about 14% (1146 MB of 8GB).

 

But when I'm playing games that use up to 3GB of system RAM (GTA V, Dying Light), the system memory consumption jumps up to about 80% (6553 MB) instead of being 3GB + ~1500 MB and finally the game crashes and a low memory warning appears. RAM usage is always more than actual + game usage.

 

I had a laptop with 8GB of RAM shared between the system and the iGPU with Windows 10 10240 which never had any memory leak issues.

 

PC Specs:
R5 1600 stock, 2x4 GB 2133MHz OCed to 2666MHz, MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X stock, Gigabyte AB350-Gaming 3.

 

Could this also be because of the memory OC? I've never played without it. I'm installing another version/build of Win10 because Creators' Update has issues for me. I really loved build 10240. Are there updates for it and support for latest NVIDIA, AMD Ryzen drivers?

[Princess Luna]

Just set your Pagefile (Virtual Memory) to 16gb.

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1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Just set your Pagefile (Virtual Memory) to 16gb.

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried increasing pagefile size but no effect. But why is it that during gaming the memory usage is about 80% when it should be about 60% (39% for the game, 21% rest)?

[GoodBytes]

I assume you investigate through Task Manager to see what process consumes all your memory. That Chrome loves your RAM... too much...

But usually, a memory leak that you can't find where it comes from, is usually mean that it is a driver that you have installed that has a bug and memory leaks. Ensure that ALL your drivers are fully updated (GPU, audio chip, networking, wireless (if any), Bluetooth (if any), motherboard chipset, any additional SATA controller that you have enabled in your UEFI, webcam, etc.)

 

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1 hour ago, GoodBytes said:

I assume you investigate through Task Manager to see what process consumes all your memory. That Chrome loves your RAM... too much...

But usually, a memory leak that you can't find where it comes from, is usually mean that it is a driver that you have installed that has a bug and memory leaks. Ensure that ALL your drivers are fully updated (GPU, audio chip, networking, wireless (if any), Bluetooth (if any), motherboard chipset, any additional SATA controller that you have enabled in your UEFI, webcam, etc.)

 

TY for your response. I use process explorer to monitor ram usage and don't have Chrome. Will check if any devices need driver updates.
My idle memory usage with just one third party app (MSI Gaming App, all the rest are MS services and applications) running is 13% (1GB). In the picture below, GTA 5 is using 3,857MB physical memory and 8,189MB paged pool memory. Total physical memory usage is 74% while it should be ~16% (Windows and the rest) + 47% (GTA 5). That makes it not more than 65%. There's also these tasks that don't show up on the task manager 'memory compression' and 'encoder service'.

[GoodBytes]

Ok so what is the problem? Games does consume a lot of RAM. I don't have the game to compare, but I don't memory leaks... A memory leak is when a process consume more and more memory contentiously, without stop, at a certain interval, even at idle, until you are out of memory (RAM usage is 100%)

 

The only thing I see wrong is seeing that svchost.exe consuming 83MB. I need to know which svchost it is. Under Task Manager it tells you, and you can show the command line to really know what service it is. It could be a software you use like some from MSI, or it could be driver related, or something else.

 

"memory compression" is a new Windows 10 thing which the OS compresses memory when you are low, trying to avoid using pagefile which is slow, even if you have an NVMe SSD compared to your RAM. It is not an actual process per se. Hence why there is not ".exe" next to it.

 

"encorderserever.exe" that is your MSI Afterburner or RivaTuner Service thingy that comes with MSI Afterburner as an optional component.

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9 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Ok so what is the problem? Games does consume a lot of RAM. I don't have the game to compare, but I don't memory leaks... A memory leak is when a process consume more and more memory contentiously, without stop, at a certain interval, even at idle, until you are out of memory (RAM usage is 100%)

 

The only thing I see wrong is seeing that svchost.exe consuming 83MB. I need to know which svchost it is. Under Task Manager it tells you, and you can show the command line to really know what service it is. It could be a software you use like some from MSI, or it could be driver related, or something else.

 

"memory compression" is a new Windows 10 thing which the OS compresses memory when you are low, trying to avoid using pagefile which is slow, even if you have an NVMe SSD compared to your RAM. It is not an actual process per se. Hence why there is not ".exe" next to it.

 

"encorderserever.exe" that is your MSI Afterburner or RivaTuner Service thingy that comes with MSI Afterburner as an optional component.

The problem is the memory that is unaccounted for. GTA 5 uses 4000ish MB, rest of the OS on idle uses 1-1.2 GB, but the total system memory consumption while the game is running climbs up to 7 GB. Isn't memory leak also when a game sends data into the RAM but can't flush it out?