Godamn windows 7

[Mixzzz]

So here I am playing GTA V or whatever games when all of a sudden it starts stuttering like someone has cursed me. I see that suddenly the HDD is being used a lot. When I check the task manager it's only using 5.5GB of ram (even dropped to 4.8GB) and says that there is 0MB free, although it says 2GB available and even more cached(~3GB).

Wtf is this shit? Anyone has a fix for this? It's a fresh reinstall of windows 7, just yesterday I reinstalled it from win 8.1.

 

Oh yeah, there isnt anything using a lot of RAM except for GTA V. And there are 2 IE11 updates that fail to install and I just stopped trying...

[d3sl91]

Did you just start recording with shadowplay or fraps? 

[Mixzzz]

Did you just start recording with shadowplay or fraps? 

Nope, have shadowplay disabled and fraps are only counting fps.

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Check running processes...?

[Mixzzz]

Check running processes...?

As I said, the only thing eating a lot of ram is GTA V 

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As I said, the only thing eating a lot of ram is GTA V 

 

Disable windows defender. Check CPU/GPU temps.

[Mixzzz]

Disable windows defender. Check CPU/GPU temps.

Defender is already disabled and MSE has real-time protection disabled

 

EDIT: Temps are fine, have checked that a few times

[sof006]

Save your game, restart your PC and see if it happens again. Could be memory leak.

[Mixzzz]

Save your game, restart your PC and see if it happens again. Could be memory leak.

Well, I have done this before. Restart does the same thing as restarting the game, for the first 30 mins or so it runs ok, and then when it runs out of "free memory" it starts using I believe pagefile and terribly affects the performance.

[sof006]

Is task manager right when it says it has 8GBs of RAM total? 

[Mixzzz]

Is task manager right when it says it has 8GBs of RAM total? 

Yup, heres what resource manager says.

[manikyath]

that memory thing is completely normal, its windows using memory that'll otherwise sit idle.

 

i've never seen a windows install not do that.

[Mixzzz]

that memory thing is completely normal, its windows using memory that'll otherwise sit idle.

 

i've never seen a windows install not do that.

Standy memory is cached memory so it has unused files stored there if youll need to access them later but the problem here is that I need that memory right now and its not deleting the cache

[manikyath]

Standy memory is cached memory so it has unused files stored there if youll need to access them later but the problem here is that I need that memory right now and its not deleting the cache

are you -sure- its the memory causing it, check your ram while the game isnt lagging yet.

 

all my systems have always been doing that, and it never caused an issue for me.

[sof006]

The minimum requirements for GTA is 4GB and max is 8GB. What settings are you running the game at, if you're running at quite high settings my thoughts are to tone the settings down a bit to free up some RAM, I run 16GBs of RAM and don't have any issues.

[Mixzzz]

The minimum requirements for GTA is 4GB and max is 8GB. What settings are you running the game at, if you're running at quite high settings my thoughts are to tone the settings down a bit to free up some RAM, I run 16GBs of RAM and don't have any issues.

I was running the exact same settings on win 8.1 and it was running butter smooth then

[sof006]

I was running the exact same settings on win 8.1 and it was running butter smooth then

My suggestion then is to go back to Windows 8.1 it must have better memory management.

[Mixzzz]

My suggestion then is to go back to Windows 8.1 it must have better memory management.

Yeah, but it had some other things bugged which made it unusable for me

[sof006]

Yeah, but it had some other things bugged which made it unusable for me

6 and two 3's then.

 

Either you use Windows 7 and reduce your settings or you use Windows 8.1

 

Also you may want to check Windows 7 isn't parking your CPU cores. It can hinder performance, even though its not related to memory issues.

[Mixzzz]

Great, the problem was just sooooo fucking obvious, just gotta love microsoft:

Had to uninstall IE11 because it had 2 updates that failed to install and even though I hided them and disabled automatic updating it still kept updating it somehow

To avoid troubles, uninstalled and disabled IE

Had to install KB2506143 KB2889748 because had problem with svchost.exe netsvcs high RAM usage before killed it.

 

EDIT: Fuck, messed up with names, KB2506143 was the update that was supposed to be fixed.  KB2889748 was the one which solved the problem

[sof006]

Great, the problem was just sooooo fucking obvious, just gotta love microsoft:

Had to uninstall IE11 because it had 2 updates that failed to install and even though I hided them and disabled automatic updating it still kept updating it somehow

To avoid troubles, uninstalled and disabled IE

Had to install KB2506143 hotfix 468849 because had problem with svchost.exe netsvcs high RAM usage before killed it.

 

EDIT: Fuck, messed up with names, KB2506143 was the update that was supposed to be fixed.  Hotfix468849 was the one which solved the problem

One of the reasons why I don't turn on Windows update lol.

[Mixzzz]

One of the reasons why I don't turn on Windows update lol.

Yeah lol