Only 4GB ram on the 8GB pc?

[BiscuitMassacre]

I have 8gbs in my PC, and in system info says 8gb. But when I run a game like bf1, it says BF1 is using 67% of my RAM. But bf1 is only using a little under 3gbs of ram. If you do the math that means that I only have 4gbs of usable memory. And my idle usage is always around 40%. I understand that Windows uses 2gbs , but 4? Is this normal? And I have a dedicated gpu so no ram should be used for Vram.

[Guest]

how are you measuring it?

[WereCat]

You sure it is not 67% of your GPU VRAM?

[BiscuitMassacre]

4 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

how are you measuring it?

 

Just now, WereCat said:

You sure it is not 67% of your GPU VRAM?

This is all from task manager. So no its into vram.

[WereCat]

Just now, BiscuitMassacre said:

 

This is all from task manager. So no its into vram.

I would not rely on task manager too much, it often reports incorrectly.

Check with something like Riva Tuner + MSI Afterburner.

[BiscuitMassacre]

5 minutes ago, WereCat said:

I would not rely on task manager too much, it often reports incorrectly.

Check with something like Riva Tuner + MSI Afterburner.

I'll try when I get home, but I do think its limiting my ram usage on BF1, because I'll go from 80fps to 15 for about 3 seconds for no apparent reason every 15 minutes or so, which would make sense if I'm running out of ram.

[spacehamster]

do you have 32bit windows

[BiscuitMassacre]

16 minutes ago, spacehamster said:

do you have 32bit windows

Windows 10 64 home

[BiscuitMassacre]

3 hours ago, spacehamster said:

do you have 32bit windows

 

3 hours ago, WereCat said:

I would not rely on task manager too much, it often reports incorrectly.

Check with something like Riva Tuner + MSI Afterburner.

 

3 hours ago, deXxterlab97 said:

how are you measuring it?

So I used msi afterburner and it says it uses 6.7 gb during bf1, but according to task manager battlefield 1 uses 2.7, which means that windows is hording almost exactly 4gbs. The only other programs opened on average is steam, spotify, origin, battle net, discord, synapse, chrome. But the only ones that are even noticeable is chrome and spotify, with chrome using 200mbs and spotify using 100mbs.

[WereCat]

1 minute ago, BiscuitMassacre said:

 

 

So I used msi afterburner and it says it uses 6.7 gb during bf1, but according to task manager battlefield 1 uses 2.7, which means that windows is hording almost exactly 4gbs. The only other programs opened on average is steam, spotify, origin, battle net, discord, synapse, chrome. But the only ones that are even noticeable is chrome and spotify, with chrome using 200mbs and spotify using 100mbs.

Task Manager -> Performance -> Resource Monitor (at the bottom left) -> Memory

[pyrojoe34]

2 minutes ago, BiscuitMassacre said:

So I used msi afterburner and it says it uses 6.7 gb during bf1, but according to task manager battlefield 1 uses 2.7, which means that windows is hording almost exactly 4gbs. The only other programs opened on average is steam, spotify, origin, battle net, discord, synapse, chrome. But the only ones that are even noticeable is chrome and spotify, with chrome using 200mbs and spotify using 100mbs.

All the other programs and things add up to RAM usage, just look at how much RAM your PC uses when not in game, it's probably already 3+GB, add the 3GB the game uses and you're at 6+GB total.

 

You're not seeing anything unusual.

[BiscuitMassacre]

19 minutes ago, WereCat said:

Task Manager -> Performance -> Resource Monitor (at the bottom left) -> Memory

 

18 minutes ago, pyrojoe34 said:

All the other programs and things add up to RAM usage, just look at how much RAM your PC uses when not in game, it's probably already 3+GB, add the 3GB the game uses and you're at 6+GB total.

 

You're not seeing anything unusual.

In resource monitor after closing all my programs, I got from around 3GBs in use to 2GB., but what about Cached? I have 2.8 GBs in cache. Can I clear it? What is it caching? Should I even clear it?

[WereCat]

3 minutes ago, BiscuitMassacre said:

 

In resource monitor after closing all my programs, I got from around 3GBs in use to 2GB., but what about Cached? I have 2.8 GBs in cache. Can I clear it? What is it caching? Should I even clear it?

Cache is fine. The more RAM you got the more stuff the Windows will throw in a Cache to speed things up.

As you can see I have almost 10GB in Cache

[pyrojoe34]

3 minutes ago, BiscuitMassacre said:

 

In resource monitor after closing all my programs, I got from around 3GBs in use to 2GB., but what about Cached? I have 2.8 GBs in cache. Can I clear it? What is it caching? Should I even clear it?

Don't worry about it, it's just how windows manages memory. I really don't see anything unusual happening with your RAM. Everything sounds normal.