What is a normal memory usage??

[Sgt.Morrigahngaming]

So .. I'm having an issue .. running the game on default settings, except turned off motion blur, during story mode AND online the game uses 99% of my gpu ( 1070 TI 8gb ) and also 11gb of my ram ( I have only 16gb ram ) ... my pagefile is set to min. 12gb - max 24gb

After about an hour playing, I get horrible stutters .. freezeups and more .. and my pc slows almost down to an hault.... Is this normal, or can this be linked to old hardware???

[pike]

let windows control the page file , it knows what its doing ,
you dont list what settings your running the game at or what you have running in the background so there is no way of know what the 'normal' usage for the game is , and really no way for someone here to tell you ,
you again dont say what version of windows you have or what you have installed so there's no way of knowing how much of your system memory is being used by windows or stuff running in the background,
you can use performance monitor in windows task manager to see what your using , there are plenty of guides online to find out how to do that if you dont know how

[Sgt.Morrigahngaming]

Sorry ..
Windows 11.
I think the games default is high ( again, I haven't touched anything except turned off Motion Blur ) ..
Using Task Manager, the game is using 11gb ( last checked it was 10942 MB )
When it comes to what is installed .. you want me to list all the applications I use? Like Adobe Acrobat, Steam, Eso launcher, Blizzard Launcher, Minecraft Launcher and a few more??
I would assume using the task manager would be enough to tell me what service/app is using, and that's where I got the number from. The GPU is running on 99% which I reckon is fine, as it should be used to the max for best performance ( atleast that's how I'm looking at it )
when it come to the pagefile, ( and I don't know much about this at all ) forums say that you should manually set pagefile in windows 11, and not let the system set it to "all drives"
I honestly have no clue about this, so I followed their recommendation. I can always set it back to how it was before. Reason I did the change was that I thought maybe it was the pagefile that made the stutter and lag, when the memory dump was happening.

In the background I usually run Discord, and sometimes Vivaldi browser ( if I need to look up something ) I don't like running a thousand things not needed for the tasks I'm doing, and I don't think my PC would like me much if I did lol.
I'm also running Task Manager on my second monitor, to follow up on what's going on..

[pike]

i dont want you to list anything , there is no way i could or would try an calculate what amount of ram or vram you should or could be using ,same goes for cpu and gpu usage when the games running,
when you see/ read reviews and articles about what games use resource wise remember that those tests are run on pc's setup to do that, with very clean windows installs, minimal processes running in the background, not a normal pc with normal use and lots of stuff installed
just set windows page file back to system managed
turn on game mode
dont run a bunch of stuff in the background that you dont need
windows uses around 4gigs system ram alone doing just windows stuff,
add on top of that all the stuff you have installed and running on top of that

[Monke-Cat]

11 of ram and fully utilizing the gpu is alright , however about the pagefile size it should be 1.5X of your ram memory , for example if you're running a system with 4 gb of ram it should be 6 , if you're running 8 GB it should be 12 , So for your system it should be 24 at minimum

here's another guess , ckeck out the temps , if your system only starts to struggle after a while under heavy load it also sounds a lot like overheating , usually fans go loud and you can actually feel the heat by keeping your hand behind the exhaust fan but for accurate measuring & monitoring use MSI Afterburner app
considering that 1070ti being at least 4-5 years old , it's highly possible ; specially if you're using one of cheaper models .

If it's overheating issue you should replace the thermal paste on the gpu and add more fans to your case

[MAXE]

Sounds like a memory flush problem that dont flush the memory when not in that given area .. you know so it is replaced with new data .. could allso be a bottleneck problem

[MAXE]

Originally posted by Hitodama:

11 of ram and fully utilizing the gpu is alright , however about the pagefile size it should be 1.5X of your ram memory , for example if you're running a system with 4 gb of ram it should be 6 , if you're running 8 GB it should be 12 , So for your system it should be 24 at minimum

here's another guess , ckeck out the temps , if your system only starts to struggle after a while under heavy load it also sounds a lot like overheating , usually fans go loud and you can actually feel the heat by keeping your hand behind the exhaust fan but for accurate measuring & monitoring use MSI Afterburner app
considering that 1070ti being at least 4-5 years old , it's highly possible ; specially if you're using one of cheaper models .

If it's overheating issue you should replace the thermal paste on the gpu and add more fans to your case

that is wrong with the page file .. the more ram you got the lower page file you will need for datatransfer between the ram and HD to Cpu/gpu .. if you have like 64gb or 128 gb of ram you wont even need a pagefile and can load it all into memory and read it straight from the ram modules instead of the HD or SSD .. fastest way to run a pc is to load it all into the memory´s and then run it straightly from the ram modules, because the SSD is slower than the ram !

The newest Gddr ram can run crazy 18+ ghz

[Monke-Cat]

Originally posted by M-A-X-E ™:

Originally posted by Hitodama:

11 of ram and fully utilizing the gpu is alright , however about the pagefile size it should be 1.5X of your ram memory , for example if you're running a system with 4 gb of ram it should be 6 , if you're running 8 GB it should be 12 , So for your system it should be 24 at minimum

here's another guess , ckeck out the temps , if your system only starts to struggle after a while under heavy load it also sounds a lot like overheating , usually fans go loud and you can actually feel the heat by keeping your hand behind the exhaust fan but for accurate measuring & monitoring use MSI Afterburner app
considering that 1070ti being at least 4-5 years old , it's highly possible ; specially if you're using one of cheaper models .

If it's overheating issue you should replace the thermal paste on the gpu and add more fans to your case

that is wrong with the page file .. the more ram you got the lower page file you will need for datatransfer between the ram and HD to Cpu/gpu .. if you have like 64gb or 128 gb of ram you wont even need a pagefile and can load it all into memory and read it straight from the ram modules instead of the HD or SSD .. fastest way to run a pc is to load it all into the memory´s and then run it straightly from the ram modules, because the SSD is slower than the ram !

The newest Gddr ram can run crazy 18+ ghz

Yes , You don't need it normally but it's the safe bet for troubleshooting

[Buttflap]

Restart the game now and then to free up resources also. Loading it up shouldn't take all that long but if it does then that points to your system lacking. Restart more often. Same goes for PCs... yeah they can go for on for months or years but a restart now and then is good. Save, exit, start it up and while it's loading, go grab a drink.

[World all D.E.A.D]

Thought abt 32gb/64gb ram in future game , rdr2 eat ram like animal beast