Think I have a RAM problem, memory usage above 90% in games.

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Hi,

I recently got a new PC: i5 760, GTX 470, 4gb RAM, Win7 64 bit

During games the memory usage seems to be very high, which causes stutter and mini freezes. The computer is reading all 4gb of the RAM.

I'm pretty sure this didn't happen when I first got the PC but it's started happening for a week or so. Here is an example when playing World of Warcraft:



This can't be normal. At first I thought it was only a WoW problem, but I tried Crysis and it is similar, although a bit less RAM usage surprisingly. Crysis also had a bit of stutter and mini freezes and actually crashed after 5 mins of gameplay, I assume because of the RAM.

In both examples the games were on around highest settings, but they should not use all 4gb of my RAM I'm pretty sure of that.

Any ideas?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979223

I had a similar issue and found that I needed to download the above fix.

Are you getting a regular freeze, like every 2 seconds or a regular time?

If so, you need to disable the windows event log.

Happened to me and i got that lag in all games, disabled the service and BAM!, everything was smooth again

EDIT: you also seem to have hundreds of googlechrome things open.....try using less of them