New build suddenly laggy and 100% RAM usage?

AlexTrickle · 29 May 2024 at 18:58

So I build my new PC just under two months ago and everything was going smoothly. FPS and performance great.
Suddenly today I notice its starting to be really jolty/micro freezes. For context my main game is WoW. Up till today 0 issues.i check the in game meters and FPS is still healthy but I'm still getting microfreezes, loading screens pause and the cursor sometimes changes to the Windows blue loading wheel which is never a good sign when in a game! This is when I notice RAM usage is at 100%. I've just upgraded to 32GB and there is no chance that WoW and chrome (only two open apps, chrome with a singular tab) should cause that? Especially as it was fine just a day ago playing WoW, multiple tabs open with YouTube etc.

I've tried a brief read of processes and I don't see anything unusual but there are hundreds of little ones?

Any suggestions?

Edit (specs):
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5
Nvidia GTX4070Ti Super
Asus ROG Strix B650E-F

AlexTrickle · 29 May 2024 at 19:13

So even with battlenet and wow closed which was the biggest user I am at 93%.
Details in task manager is showing 29/31.2GB.
Nothing bigger than 304mb which is Discord currently

AlexTrickle · 29 May 2024 at 19:43

Update: seems to be Windows that fixed itself. I did the Windows reset function where it does a self repair but keeps your programs etc. After it's now back down to 25% idle memory usage and capping at 55% with WoW and Chrome open

I noticed a lot of the small processes that were there (and I'm talking dozens) are now no longer showing. Any idea what could cause this to avoid it in the future?

AlexTrickle · 30 May 2024 at 08:19

Marak said:
Also worth noting that if you Start Menu->Shut Down your PC every night then under default windows settings fast startup is enabled which means the PC doesn't actually end running processes it just hibernates.

So when you power up again nothing has been cleanly shutdown and restarted, leaving any ****** processes still in a ****** state.

A Start Menu->Restart will do a full shutdown and power on again. Or you can disable fast restart in the power settings.

I did not actually know this. Will definitely look to change this, I usually shut down because I want a full restart every day