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I think Windows 10 is giving me some sort of memory problem...

Whorax
By Whorax
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I've had this problem ever since I upgraded to Windows 10 where sometimes I'll be doing two different things simultaneously (mostly playing War Thunder/Fallout 4 and watching Twitch/YouTube at the same time) and my system will get incredibly "laggy," for lack of a better term. Everything on my computer stutters and sound glitches out in bursts, and the only thing that fixes it is a restart. The only reason I know this involves my memory is because I looked in my task manager while this happened and noticed memory was at 99%.

 

Anyone have this problem? Or a potential fix to it if there is one? I don't know what a memory leak feels like since I've never had one, but if this is one, is it fixable? I only remember this happening since I updated to Windows 10.

 

Also, I wasn't sure if this belonged in OS and Software or Memory, so here I am. Sorry if it's in the wrong subforum.

 

Thanks for any help.

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Care to list your Startup programs?

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Care to list your Startup programs?

I'm off my main machine for the night and typing this from my laptop right now. I'll come back and list them tomorrow. :P

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What consumes so much memory?

If it is "System" in Task Manager, then it is a memory leak caused by a driver (probably graphics card or sound card, would be my guess, but Ethernet/wireless could also be it)

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What consumes so much memory?

If it is "System" in Task Manager, then it is a memory leak caused by a driver (probably graphics card or sound card, would be my guess, but Ethernet/wireless could also be it)

It was not System as that was only using like 65MB, but I can't tell you what the main culprit using it all was. I guess I didn't think to look. I'm sure if I finagle around a bit I can replicate the problem tomorrow and find out what is using most of it.

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I noticed your mainboard use Killer Network, try to disable the monitoring program/service.

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I noticed your mainboard use Killer Network, try to disable the monitoring program/service.

Ah yes, that has been reported many times to cause nothing more than problems.
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I noticed your mainboard use Killer Network, try to disable the monitoring program/service.

Ah yes, that has been reported many times to cause nothing more than problems.

How would I go about disabling this thing? I didn't even know this existed. :P

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How would I go about disabling this thing? I didn't even know this existed. :P

Found it on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/369uwk/does_windows_10_have_a_system_wide_memory_leak/

Not 100% sure if that was the problem.

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 | Enermax NAXN82+ 650W 80Plus Bronze | Fiio E07K | Grado SR80i | Cooler Master XB HAF EVO | Logitech G27 | Logitech G600 | CM Storm Quickfire TK | DualShock 4 |

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