Computer becomes very slow

[David William]

My pc-

I5 10gen

8gb ram

128 SSD

1 tb HD

 

I have noticed that I cant even 7 tabs open in Google Chrome before it starts to lag so much that I cant even use them.The ram shows like 90 utilisation, chrome used like 3 gb

 

I cant even run rocket league without lagging.

 

Before any apps run the ram is on 50%,like how is that?

[jaslion]

Stuff became very inneficient ram wise these days. You have 8gb of ram which is considered below minimum for moderate use now. So well the easiest option is to upgrade. 

 

It wont get better. Optimization costs money and they'd rather the cusomter pays for the performance uplift than the companies that make the products

[whispous]

Could you let us know which graphics card/GPU you have too please?

[MadAnt250]

34 minutes ago, David William said:

8gb ram

128 SSD

Yep! I'm willing to bet that this may become an issue.

[David William]

33 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Stuff became very inneficient ram wise these days. You have 8gb of ram which is considered below minimum for moderate use now. So well the easiest option is to upgrade. 

 

It wont get better. Optimization costs money and they'd rather the cusomter pays for the performance uplift than the companies that make the products

So do you think ram upgrade would make it better,16GB or more??

[David William]

31 minutes ago, whispous said:

Could you let us know which graphics card/GPU you have too please?

Oh sorry its a 1050ti OC

[David William]

3 minutes ago, MadAnt250 said:

Yep! I'm willing to bet that this may become an issue.

128SSD is used to hold the system files only,

Everything else is on the 1tb hard,like they are not even being utilised 

[David William]

Before like 3 or 4 months back i didnt have this issue actually 

[David William]

This is without me using anything,like im genuinely concerned why is 50%

[YoungBlade]

Windows 11 uses over 3GB of RAM just by itself. When Microsoft says that the minimum system requirement is 4GB of RAM, they are not just pulling a number out of thin air. You really need a minimum of 4GB just for Windows 11 to even work properly, let alone run anything in addition to the OS. And 8GB isn't great either. It's frankly a compromised experience in 2025.

 

If you want to continue using 8GB of RAM, you need to get into the habit of only doing one thing at a time on the computer. No alt-tabbing between your game and browser, or having a browser open on a second monitor while playing Rocket League. If you want to use a bunch of tabs, you cannot be jumping between them and expecting it to be snappy.

 

It looks like you also have a lot of background tasks running as well. It might be worth clearing some of those things off your computer to free up space. Or at least don't have the run at startup anymore.

 

Or, you can try to upgrade to 16GB, although you'd be doing so at the worst time in over a decade, as the RAM shortage is impacting even older DDR4 pricing.

[MadAnt250]

10 minutes ago, David William said:

This is without me using anything,like im genuinely concerned why is 50%

You have multiple applications running and only 8GB of RAM. What do you expect?

Also, how full is your HDD? And what is your HDD usage when things slow down and struggle.

[apoyusiken]

you might want to try a live linux usb and actulally change to linux if you dont want to upgrade the ram. Maybe debloated windows idk.

[krieger_857]

there are some extensions that allow you to suspend tabs freeing ram like The Marvelous Suspender

[Pusbucket]

1 hour ago, David William said:

128SSD is used to hold the system files only,

Everything else is on the 1tb hard,like they are not even being utilised 

this combined with only 8 gigs of ram means you are probably beating the crap out of that poor SSD with page file swaps, especially if you have multiple tabs open and other active programs/games running, greatly reducing it's life.

That's why it starts lagging, it's swapping data back and forth from the drive to RAM, and with only a 128 gig SSD, that can get messy.

I'm gonna speculate that the free space on the ssd is nil and it's health may also be suspect.

 

 

[UKArea]

Ideally, even though the markets really difficult at the moment and the prices are crazy, you could do with 16 GB ram. One thing I always do when my PC starts getting slow is I will make sure I back up my data and do a fresh install nothing beats it. The fact that I use OneDrive to hold all my data really makes this an easy option for me. I would recommend.

[David William]

2 hours ago, UKArea said:

Ideally, even though the markets really difficult at the moment and the prices are crazy, you could do with 16 GB ram. One thing I always do when my PC starts getting slow is I will make sure I back up my data and do a fresh install nothing beats it. The fact that I use OneDrive to hold all my data really makes this an easy option for me. I would recommend.

I thought of backing to one drive but I dont know if I can trust "online server" to hold private date in case of breach

[David William]

2 hours ago, Pusbucket said:

this combined with only 8 gigs of ram means you are probably beating the crap out of that poor SSD with page file swaps, especially if you have multiple tabs open and other active programs/games running, greatly reducing it's life.

That's why it starts lagging, it's swapping data back and forth from the drive to RAM, and with only a 128 gig SSD, that can get messy.

I'm gonna speculate that the free space on the ssd is nil and it's health may also be suspect.

 

 

In the 128gb it has about 50GB remaining

[David William]

3 hours ago, krieger_857 said:

there are some extensions that allow you to suspend tabs freeing ram like The Marvelous Suspender

I will try that

[David William]

3 hours ago, MadAnt250 said:

You have multiple applications running and only 8GB of RAM. What do you expect?

Also, how full is your HDD? And what is your HDD usage when things slow down and struggle.

It has more than 100GB remaining,dividing to 3 parts(E F D)

[David William]

3 hours ago, YoungBlade said:

Windows 11 uses over 3GB of RAM just by itself. When Microsoft says that the minimum system requirement is 4GB of RAM, they are not just pulling a number out of thin air. You really need a minimum of 4GB just for Windows 11 to even work properly, let alone run anything in addition to the OS. And 8GB isn't great either. It's frankly a compromised experience in 2025.

 

If you want to continue using 8GB of RAM, you need to get into the habit of only doing one thing at a time on the computer. No alt-tabbing between your game and browser, or having a browser open on a second monitor while playing Rocket League. If you want to use a bunch of tabs, you cannot be jumping between them and expecting it to be snappy.

 

It looks like you also have a lot of background tasks running as well. It might be worth clearing some of those things off your computer to free up space. Or at least don't have the run at startup anymore.

 

Or, you can try to upgrade to 16GB, although you'd be doing so at the worst time in over a decade, as the RAM shortage is impacting even older DDR4 pricing.

I agree on the ram pricing and I hate the guys who caused it,affecting people who doesn't have much money . There is a friend in China who can get one and send me.He said it being about 30% cheaper.

 

I am actually running a second monitor.

 

How can I free up the background stuff that's running?

[David William]

3 hours ago, apoyusiken said:

you might want to try a live linux usb and actulally change to linux if you dont want to upgrade the ram. Maybe debloated windows idk.

Thinking of upgrading ram at this moment...

[YoungBlade]

16 minutes ago, David William said:

I agree on the ram pricing and I hate the guys who caused it,affecting people who doesn't have much money . There is a friend in China who can get one and send me.He said it being about 30% cheaper.

 

I am actually running a second monitor.

 

How can I free up the background stuff that's running?

You can go to Settings > Apps > Startup to see what applications are set to run at startup and disable ones that you don't need.

[MadAnt250]

11 minutes ago, David William said:

Thinking of upgrading ram at this moment...

Look for some cheap low spec PC to salvage parts from.

[Mark Kaine]

4 hours ago, David William said:

128SSD is used to hold the system files only,

Everything else is on the 1tb hard,like they are not even being utilised 

How much free on that 128? Cause that's potentially another issue besides too little ram...

 

3 hours ago, Pusbucket said:

this combined with only 8 gigs of ram means you are probably beating the crap out of that poor SSD with page file swaps, especially if you have multiple tabs open and other active programs/games running, greatly reducing it's life.

That's why it starts lagging, it's swapping data back and forth from the drive to RAM, and with only a 128 gig SSD, that can get messy.

I'm gonna speculate that the free space on the ssd is nil and it's health may also be suspect.

 

 

Yeap, sounds to me like the SSD is on the way out...

[David William]

2 hours ago, YoungBlade said:

You can go to Settings > Apps > Startup to see what applications are set to run at startup and disable ones that you don't need.

Ok I will do that