Sudden increase in RAM usage?

[Lemon]

Just a heads up, I'm gonna say "RAM usage" quite a lot so bear with me.

So, I've noticed that my computers RAM usage has suddenly increased and I don't know why. I wouldn't have much problems with it but it affects my gaming sessions. Let's say I'm playing Dark Souls III and I'm browsing the internet at the same time looking up information about items, weapons etc. or maybe listening to a podcast while getting thrrough an area and all of the sudden my browser closes/crashes and if I am using steams own web browser it crashes the game itself as well.

Currently my RAM usage is at 75% and I had no apps open, I just turned my PC on and opened task manager to check the RAM usage. before this sudden change my RAM usage after turning on my PC was about 20 - 25% so I don't think this is normal for the RAM usage to just jump up by tens of percents, I even have a few apps now set to sleep until I open them.

Does anyone have any idea what this could be about? I checked my system multiple times incase of a virus or other malicious program. I did some cleaning and deleted unnecessary programs, I even checked some programs that I didn't know anything about with the Security Task Manager (STM). What could this be all about?

I appreciate all advice I can get, thanks in advance!

[ReBoot]

引用自 s1601019：

引用自 ReBoot：

By the way, ive read it up after posting. Your non-paged pool is ridiculously high. Something is eating a huge lot of kernel memory. No wonder you dont have a process eating all this up. Did you install any drivers yourself or have you let Windows handle them? If you installed them yourself, check for driver updates.

I installed my GPU drivers myself and I recently checked updates for drivers with Avast and it did update a few drivers. I'm gonna check for updates again but I'll use windows' own device manager. Other than that, is there anything else I could do?

For this particular issue you can do twofold.
First and cheapest, see if this Avast Driver Updater (or whatever this Avast product is called) has driver updates for you. If that doesnt help, uninstall it (it doesnt help afterall) and uninstall everything it installed. To be precise, uninstall all drivers that werent installed trhough Windows Update, except the graphics driver.
Rule of thumb: Always have Windows handle its drivers, unless you have a REALLY good reason for installing a driver yourself. A typical exception are graphics drivers as WU tends to lag behind a month or two and graphics drivers tend to be rather clean when it comes to crap like youre in right now. Unlike Intels RST drivers or not few network drivers.

[myronchin2]

after the update my fallout 4 is using 98.5% is crazy and i cant even load my game or move my mouse to select load option .....

[Lemon]

引用自 s1601019：

I just checked for updates and windows found one, it's an update for itself, called "2018-09 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1803 for x64-based Systems (KB4457128)".

I didn't find any other updates but I'll double check after this one has installed.

The update just finished installing and the memory usage is now sitting at 28% without any other games or apps open.

I'm gonna compare the memory breakdown info now and I'll write it down here.

Before update:
In use (compressed): 6,6 GB (112 MB)
Available: 1,4 GB
Commited: 8,4/14,2 GB
Cached: 1,4 GB
Paged pool: 105 MB
Non-paged pool: 4,4 GB
Free: 60 MB

After update:
In use (compressed): 2,2 GB (55,4 MB)
Available: 5,7 GB
Commited: 3,3/15,0 GB
Cached: 3,6 GB
Paged pool: 275 MB
Non-paged pool: 108 MB
Free: ~2,2 GB

[Lemon]

引用自 myronchin2：

after the update my fallout 4 is using 98.5% is crazy and i cant even load my game or move my mouse to select load option .....

I agree with ReBoot, you shouldn't start your own thing in an ongoing discussion, you can always start your own discussion and go into detail there, I'm sure people will notice and help. Besides you could at least go through the whole discussion before you add to it, maybe try the options we have talked about and if those don't work then start your own or wait until the current one is done and then ask someone for help.

Anyway, I got my problem solved and I'll mark a solution. Start another discussion, because people mostl likely won't come here as it has been solved, I hope you figure things out!

[Lemon]

引用自 ReBoot：

For this particular issue you can do twofold.
First and cheapest, see if this Avast Driver Updater (or whatever this Avast product is called) has driver updates for you. If that doesnt help, uninstall it (it doesnt help afterall) and uninstall everything it installed. To be precise, uninstall all drivers that werent installed trhough Windows Update, except the graphics driver.
Rule of thumb: Always have Windows handle its drivers, unless you have a REALLY good reason for installing a driver yourself. A typical exception are graphics drivers as WU tends to lag behind a month or two and graphics drivers tend to be rather clean when it comes to crap like youre in right now. Unlike Intels RST drivers or not few network drivers.

I'll keep that in mind for the future. Thanks for the help, I probably wouldn't have figured this out myself, in a long time at least if it wasn't for your help and now that I know what caused this problem I could pass down the info to others who have a similar issue.

I'll be keeping an eye on the RAM usage for a while to make sure everything stays well.

Again, thanks for the help!