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Every once in a while when ill play a game ill get huge fps drops or the game will freeze for a small period of time. I opened the resource manager and saw, that my memory was full, eventho when I normally play it gets to 60% at max. This has happened a few times now and only a restart does help. How do I solve this?

 

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Try running malwarebytes and closing stuff in the background. A reboot might help too

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First confirm your non-paged pool when this happens is taking up most of your RAM. You can find it in Task Manager -> Performance Tab -> Memory on the bottom right:

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If this is the case and if you have a Killer NIC, grab the latest drivers, uninstall everything, then install only the drivers. If it comes with support software, don't install it (unless for some dumb reason it's actually required)

 

If you don't have a Killer NIC, post the rest of your specs if you can.

 

In any case, a high usage non-paged pool is an indication of a driver leaking memory. So if you want to be proactive, just update everything.

 

If it's not non-paged pool, let me know. I'll think of some other things for you to post to figure it out.

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open task manager and see what's taking all your ram in the processes tab

send a screenshot

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5 hours ago, savedan said:

i have only discord and chrome in the background.

They seem to be using a decent chunk of ram, you could try closing them.

 

Also try a reboot.

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On 8/30/2017 at 5:12 PM, M.Yurizaki said:

First confirm your non-paged pool when this happens is taking up most of your RAM. You can find it in Task Manager -> Performance Tab -> Memory on the bottom right:

59a6c749693b2_non-pagedpool.png.6b6eb2d78e342684c94e1521637e4536.png

 

If this is the case and if you have a Killer NIC, grab the latest drivers, uninstall everything, then install only the drivers. If it comes with support software, don't install it (unless for some dumb reason it's actually required)

 

If you don't have a Killer NIC, post the rest of your specs if you can.

 

In any case, a high usage non-paged pool is an indication of a driver leaking memory. So if you want to be proactive, just update everything.

 

If it's not non-paged pool, let me know. I'll think of some other things for you to post to figure it out.

I think i have this issue.

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