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 I feel like too much of my ram is being used; while idle with no programs running, my ram usage is 2.5 GB. I feel like that is too much being used. Could some of it be dedicated to a certain program? It is set a regular speed.

 

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Maybe the OS is using it?

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 I feel like too much of my ram is being used; while idle with no programs running, my ram usage is 2.5 GB. I feel like that is too much being used. Could some of it be dedicated to a certain program? It is set a regular speed.

Maybe a screen shot of task manager?  (set most ram order)

 

 

 

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Also, GTA V uses 97% of RAM so just throwing that out there.

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sounds about right to me. GTA 5 uses 10g of system memory for me

 

Insane! So much for 8 gigs being "enough."

 

What resolution? I wonder if that has any influence at all.

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I was playing at 5760x1080, everything to the max, but have msaa off. I don't know what a single 1080 screen would be...

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restart you PC

 

and then power up task manager and see the idle RAM usage

 

then fire up GTA5 and look again

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Insane! So much for 8 gigs being "enough."

 

What resolution? I wonder if that has any influence at all.

I use a single 1080p monitor.

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In Task Manager click on processes and then sort by memory usage(Ram) and post us a screenshot.

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In Task Manager click on processes and then sort by memory usage(Ram) and post us a screenshot.

I will when I get home.

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Thats pretty normal "idle" usage on Win7. I use atm about same with Firefox (7 tabs), VLC, Thunderbord and Opera runnng. Plus several bg processes. Just flash makes ram go bye-bye.

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Screenshot of RAM usage:

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@LordMustangGTGta V just eats ram im on a 1080p setup and I have seen up to 11.6 Gigs of my 16 being used while playing. Im 90% sure its a memory leak. There is something they are not de-allocating.

 

@thewafflemaster Thats about right honestly, with more ram the idle usage goes up. I don't know why though.

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Windows 7 uses 1.5-2GB at least for me.

Windows 8 and 10 dont need that much as i heard.

So yes it could be your OS but also some essential software for your hardware. Dont worry its all okay.

PS. 1080p GTA V + Chrome (fb, twitch, couple tabs, adventure capitalist web-browser game) eat 7.5GB of my 8GB total RAM.

Insane, im starting to think about getting another 4gb stick.

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what's interesting is, when I was alt tab out, I saw it spike to use all of my memory, 15.xxgs of my 16g, and vramm went from 2.8-2.9 to the full 3g till I tabbed back in...

At my res, it uses 10-12g all the time aswell

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