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Well first off im going to excuse any bad spelling/grammar because im not nativly an english speaker.

 

Ok iv had a LOT of trubble with games lagging sometimes, iv almost always thought it has been my internet because its a pice of horse shit, but no it wasnt. The reson i even cheked what was using what amount of memory is that i opened the activity manager and looked at how much my proccesor had to work when i played games like CS:GO and hevely modded minecraft online with friends and then i looked at the ram usage and it was around 99-100% and i was like "holy shit what is doing this?!!" and then i looked at procceses and at the top was spotify, using about 3.5GB of my memory.... what the shit... it was beating my minecraft client that was using ~2GB.. i have 8GB of ram and that should be plenty, i thought, obviuasly not if you whant to use skype, spotify and some game... i did today however find that restarting spotify makes it restart at 1.1GB of memory usage and then i looked at the usage and it was incresing with a 4kb/s rate whilst playing songs, kinda slow i thought and then i just never stoped, i played song after song and the RAM just filled up more and more and usiualy at faster rates as the songs played... its like its downloading the songs to the RAM whilst playing them(because its a streaming service if you didnt know) and then NOT removing the data from the RAM, this is really strange and if someone knows what to do about it/ has this same problem id like to know because this seems like a major flaw on there part and this is really wierd..

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

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#1. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

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#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

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Try the webplayer,

take a look at your settings, there might be something wierd going on in there?

I always use the webplayer. I've found it to work better with fewer hick ups and random issues.

When in doubt: C4

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Try the webplayer,

take a look at your settings, there might be something wierd going on in there?

I always use the webplayer. I've found it to work better with fewer hick ups and random issues.

my main browser is chrome and that and games dosent work verry well... also i like to have a standalsone client program rather than the browser. and as for settings, there are basicly none and that is one of my major issues with spotify... 

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

Builds:

The Toaster Project! Northern Bee!

 

The original LAN PC build log! (Old, dead and replaced by The Toaster Project & 5.0)

Spoiler

"Here is some advice that might have gotten lost somewhere along the way in your life. 

 

#1. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

#2. It's best to keep your mouth shut; and appear to be stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

Follow these simple rules in life, and I promise you, things magically get easier. " - MageTank 31-10-2016

 

 

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my main browser is chrome and that and games dosent work verry well... also i like to have a standalsone client program rather than the browser. and as for settings, there are basicly none and that is one of my major issues with spotify... 

Have you tried to reinstall?

Otherwise i'm out of things to say.

When in doubt: C4

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Have you tried to reinstall?

Otherwise i'm out of things to say.

Pritty sure i did that when i first saw the problem, and that it didnt help at all..

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

Builds:

The Toaster Project! Northern Bee!

 

The original LAN PC build log! (Old, dead and replaced by The Toaster Project & 5.0)

Spoiler

"Here is some advice that might have gotten lost somewhere along the way in your life. 

 

#1. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

#2. It's best to keep your mouth shut; and appear to be stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

Follow these simple rules in life, and I promise you, things magically get easier. " - MageTank 31-10-2016

 

 

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