Brief Summary: I had this problem with windows 7, and figured upgrading to windows 8 would solve the issue (I wanted to upgrade anyway) but it's still happening. I have 8 GB of DDR3 RAM and when I start windows it has about 1.5 GB in use. Just letting it sit there, the memory use slowly climbs and climbs until memory usage says 90%+ and it gets extremely laggy or freezes. It takes less than a day of being on to hit the 90% memory usage. Restarting my PC resets memory usage and the climb begins over again until I have to reset, rinse repeat.
The processes tab shows all processes only using the original 1.5GB and the continuous memory usage comes out of no where. I thought it could be a problem with my RAM so I swapped it out and it's still happening - even running memtest for half a day shows 0 failures. I have tried disabling all services from starting at startup except Microsoft services and it still happens. I have tried setting my page file manually (I set it to minimum AND maximum at 16GB). Still happening.
I have Windows 8.1, Asus Z97 Sabertooth Mark 2 motherboard, Corsair vengeance DDR3 1600MHz 8GB, Asus 970 GTX, Samsung 250GB Evo 850 SSD, WD 2 TB Black HDD. My system is fully up-to-date with updates and all drivers are the newest versions. I have to leave for work right now but will be checking this thread and responding throughout the day if anyone has any advice of what my problem could be, and I will be back to test any advice from you guys when I'm off work tonight. Thank you so much in advance for anyone that replies - this issue has really been bugging me.
The processes tab shows all processes only using the original 1.5GB and the continuous memory usage comes out of no where. I thought it could be a problem with my RAM so I swapped it out and it's still happening - even running memtest for half a day shows 0 failures. I have tried disabling all services from starting at startup except Microsoft services and it still happens. I have tried setting my page file manually (I set it to minimum AND maximum at 16GB). Still happening.
I have Windows 8.1, Asus Z97 Sabertooth Mark 2 motherboard, Corsair vengeance DDR3 1600MHz 8GB, Asus 970 GTX, Samsung 250GB Evo 850 SSD, WD 2 TB Black HDD. My system is fully up-to-date with updates and all drivers are the newest versions. I have to leave for work right now but will be checking this thread and responding throughout the day if anyone has any advice of what my problem could be, and I will be back to test any advice from you guys when I'm off work tonight. Thank you so much in advance for anyone that replies - this issue has really been bugging me.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1