System Using 50% or more ram on idle/light loads

[Harsh0748]

It's been a while since I started noticing that my system is using too much ram when idle and slows down when I run games, I don't know if its a problem with certain software or I just need to upgrade my ram?

Can someone help me out?

My system specs are-

Cpu-  intel i7-7700HQ

Gpu- nvidia GTX1070

Ram- 16 Gb 2400MHz

Storage- 2 TB of combined HDD and SSD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fasauceome]

Uninstall everything that is HP and Omen related, or disable it in the startup section. Chances are a large portion of what's consuming the ram is bloatware. Disable as much of any other programs you can as well, I find that having pretty much nothing launch at startup is often best. Most users don't need chrome, steam, Epic, spotify, and OneDrive open the very second the PC starts up.

[SpookyCitrus]

I wouldn't call having, Chrome, Powerpoint, Spotify, etc. Plus HP bloatware all running at the same time idle. Do as @Fasauceome suggested and see if disabling startup apps and removing HP bloatware helps.

 

ADWCleaner by Malwarebytes will remove bloatware/OEM software that isn't needed for the computer to function if you don't want to manually try to uninstall it.

[Dukesilver27-]

Idle is not having anything running, if you have all those software running it means you're using the computer, even tho you're not actually opening or operating those software.

So, it is normal, but if you run games with that much software being open, it's your own fault for thinking your CPU could handle all of them at the same time.

[ChuckFeed]

I have 8 gigs of RAM and usually use under 4 gigs except when i play video games, you should probably consider installing a functional operating system that is designed to work and not to make you 'upgrade' your hardware every 2 years.

Also consider getting rid of all those proprietary RAM eaters like chrome spotify discord etc...

you can run half of those things in a web browser anyways, and in fact most of them are literally just chrome binaries with some js slapped on top of it (known as electron), so a separate web browser to only run one program inside it. you run 10 web browsers, when you could run those 10 programs inside the one browser you already have.

oh and i forgot to mention, according to microsoft, unused ram is wasted ram. windows uses up all the ram it can get to 'speed itself up', giving free ram (or not lol) when its really needed for higher-priority tasks, thus slowing itself down a little (not even noticeable)

[Harsh0748]

I got rid of the bloatware software got from 8gb of ram usage to 7gb, Plus I use the omen stuff for system temps and network activity and I got rid of other modules it provides