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I have quite a big problem for playing cause I often reach 95% of ram used when I play, even if I have 8Gb in my computer.

What I don't understand is if I open Task Manager and sum everything, I never reach how much used ram it tell me I am using.

For example in this screen, it tells me 48% so around 3.8G used, but if I sum everything I don't even reach 1G.

So can someone explain me what is happening ?

Task Manager

Resource monitor

PS: Done check with poolmon and the highest driver show a use of 0.1Gb of ram, so that is not the problem and this is not a duplicate !

PS2 : RamMap say exactly the same as task manager.

Alfakyn1
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So here is the solution for me :

I found that sometimes when you have a lot of files Windows allow the "Windows Search" services to become very huge. This result in a very big windows.edb file and in a huge amount of RAM allocated for that. This part of RAM is used but never shown in Task manager or RamMap.

After disabling the "Windows Search" services my ram usage dropped by 25%.

Alfakyn1
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Your RAM usage is so high because using RAM is free. Your system cannot save RAM for later. A system with 8GB can't use 6GB today so it can use 12GB tomorrow.

If you're thinking "I want my RAM free now so I can use it later", realize that that's nonsense. You can use you RAM now and use it later. There's no painful tradeoff to make here.

Modern operating systems go to great lengths to use as much RAM as possible unless they have no other choice. Only RAM that is being used can make your system run faster and avoid unnecessary I/O. Free RAM is no better than RAM sitting on a shelf.

David Schwartz
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