Never enough RAM

[<3 farmers cuz füd]

Recently I keep getting the message that not enough RAM is free for Watch Dogs 2 to run properly (resulting in not even a stable fps of 30 outside of town).
When checking the resource monitor I see that the game is using 7,2 gigs of commited memory and that my memory usage is around 95%.
I have tried lowering the in game settings to medium, but that doesn't seem to help in any way. Probably because the settings mostly use VRAM and the CPU instead of the actual RAM, but I haven't checked.

Does anybody know what's up with the memory usage and possibly how to fix it?
I have Windows 10 and 16GB RAM.

[Mr. Bubsy J. Wubbus]

I had this problem too... After I defragmented my drives it seemed to be fine.

[<3 farmers cuz füd]

Thanks for the tip, will try that tomorrow before playing again :)

[Mr. Bubsy J. Wubbus]

good luck

[Yondar]

You can also try increasing the page file size.

[<3 farmers cuz füd]

Tried to defrag my disk (or optimize as Windows 10 calls it), but the performance doesn't seem to have improved.
After this I took a look at the page file and it seems larg enough. Windows 10 manages it itself, but its current size is almost 6GB which should be far larger than I can ever imagine so I left that the way it was.

At this point I'm not sure what it is. The game used to be fine with the RAM I have, but around the time of the last patch I keep getting the message that I don't have enough RAM. Since Windows 10 updates just get pushed without much in the way of choice it might also be a Windows update that caused the issue.

edit: Thanks for the advice though :)

[Mr. Bubsy J. Wubbus]

Yup... sorry it didnt work...

[Hawk of the Mornin' Tuah]

Do you have space on your hard drive for it to utilize the page file space?

[<3 farmers cuz füd]

On the OS partition I still have 407 GB of free space, so it should be enough for it to grow.

[DarkMatter]

Use a free derfragger like Piriform Defraggler (make sure to untick any adware at end of installer setup as some installers have a Toolbar or similar adware checkbox selected near end of install).

You can defrag free space with defraggler, check random read speeds, and also do a quick defrag to quickly optimise files in a partition that has been defragged recently or is fairly well organised.

Defraggler may take a while the first time in defrags a drive if that drive has not been defragged for a while or has poor file placement and optimisation usually due to Windows own defragger. Defraggler is a lot faster than the terrible Windows one and allows you to defrag individual files, along with options to shutdown computer or just quit the program when it finishes.

You can get the portable version here which doesn't have any adware bundled with it
https://www.piriform.com/defraggler/builds

[<3 farmers cuz füd]

Thanks for the advice :)
I do want to avoid 3rd party software though.