High memory usage in win 10

[Magnusbreak]

Hello there, was checking my task manager and found out that I was using 70% of my 16GB ram when I have a game, browser, and nothing more open. 

 

Did the math and it didn't add up, tried checking resource monitor but being a noob in RAM, didn't find anything useful.

 

Closed mir4 and the launcher, ram usage dropped less than 20%.

 

Any clues what may be causing it, or how would someone go check it?

 

 

[Acewing]

Can you close that browser and see how much the memory usage drops? (give it a couple of minutes after closing) 
Chromium-based browsers do use a lot of memory, and Windows 10 can be deceptive as to what actually uses your memory, making Task Manager and Resource Monitor a bit useless for this purpose

[Magnusbreak]

Sorry for the late reply, this is with chrome closed, there is still something drinking my RAM that the tools are not showing. Any recommendation of software to use to monitor this?

[Acewing]

This is completely normal. 
Because of Windows 10's memory compression business, you can't tell (as far as I know, no tool can tell reliably) what exactly is using some of the memory. In your screenshot, 742 MB is used by this. 
If you remove that, roughly 5 GB of memory is in use, with 1 GB of that going to a game, which is normal. 

[Magnusbreak]

Ok, but if I sum everything in use, it doesn't even reach close to 4GB remaining removing the game. All apps open should consume at max 500-700mb.

 

I understand that windows won't show me everything, but something is consuming 4GB alone, and I doubt is the system on its own.

 

Did I understand something wrong here?