Windows 11 using to much Ram/Memory

[DemonicShadow]

I got 2x8gb sticks DDR5 so 16GB.

But when idle on windows 11 it's using around half or more.

So basically if I try and play elden ring for example I get random shutters.

And I know it's not my PC, as I had a worse PC before and it ran flawless, this is a newer higher end PC with a better processor. Better graphics card.

Yet it runs worse, like at most Windows 11 should consume 4gb ram if not less.

Yes I could always get more RAM and upgrade and yes I will get some more eventually.

But I know right now I shouldn't require more and it shouldn't stutter and make the game unplayable

[Tonepoet]

isolated1님이 먼저 게시:

It's literally $80 for 32 gb of DDR4 3200. You should think about maybe switching your RAM kit.

Before you start telling people to buy larger sticks of R.A.M. to conduct a R.A.M. upgrade, you should ask them if they have free R.A.M. slots on their mo. bo. first.

If you have 2 unpopulated R.A.M. slots doing nothing special, the more cost-effective path to 32 gigabytes is buying a second of the same kit you already have, which will probably just cost $40.

Also, it's hard to recommend tossing out D.D.R. 4 to just buy more D.D.R. 4, esp. when 16 is considered sufficient for low end gaming. It's money likely better put towards D.D.R. 5 in a full platform upgrade later down the line, esp. since some of the cheaper D.D.R. 5 kits cost $80 for 32 gigs right now.[www.amazon.com]

I mean, it's not the best D.D.R. 5 by any stretch of the imagination, but also I imagine even the worst D.D.R. 5 is at least roughly comparable to mediocre D.D.R. 4. and more future proof.

But also taking a quick look around the internet, Windows might just be dynamically allocating R.A.M. for cache purposes or other stuff it can dump to the hard drive in a heart beat if it becomes necessary to actually use with something which needs it more, in which case the higher R.A.M. consumption while the system is more idle is a more efficient use of system resources anyway. People say similar things about Ubuntu vs. Lubuntu R.A.M. consumption if I recall correctly.

[YoSoyJosh]

الله أكبر님이 먼저 게시:

𐕣 NØNE 𐕣님이 먼저 게시:

Can your motherboard not handle more than 16GB of RAM? If it can, why haven't you upgraded to 32GB? If you have money to buy games, why not invest $100 into a 32GB DDR5 kit and not have to worry about RAM usage at all

its DDR4

DemonicShadow님이 먼저 게시:

I got 2x8gb sticks DDR5 so 16GB.

But when idle on windows 11 it's using around half or more.

So basically if I try and play elden ring for example I get random shutters.

And I know it's not my PC, as I had a worse PC before and it ran flawless, this is a newer higher end PC with a better processor. Better graphics card.

Yet it runs worse, like at most Windows 11 should consume 4gb ram if not less.

Yes I could always get more RAM and upgrade and yes I will get some more eventually.

But I know right now I shouldn't require more and it shouldn't stutter and make the game unplayable

Looks like it says DDR5 to me?

[samppi]

yeah...

[AmaiAmai]

DemonicShadow님이 먼저 게시:

I got 2x8gb sticks DDR5 so 16GB.

But when idle on windows 11 it's using around half or more.

So basically if I try and play elden ring for example I get random shutters.

And I know it's not my PC, as I had a worse PC before and it ran flawless, this is a newer higher end PC with a better processor. Better graphics card.

Yet it runs worse, like at most Windows 11 should consume 4gb ram if not less.

Yes I could always get more RAM and upgrade and yes I will get some more eventually.

But I know right now I shouldn't require more and it shouldn't stutter and make the game unplayable

Who told you Windows 11 uses 4GB RAM or less?

If you want Windows to use less RAM you have to strip all the bloat out or use an edition that won't come with the gaming stuff (and then you add what you want). From what I understand those are not available to consumers.

I use a stripped edition of Windows for testing drivers and finding flaws and it is stripped nearly bare.

I believe you can get the stripped edition of Windows if you are in university for Computer Science or IT, though some universities may allow you to get all.

[Karumati]

DemonicShadow님이 먼저 게시:

I got 2x8gb sticks DDR5 so 16GB.

But when idle on windows 11 it's using around half or more.

So basically if I try and play elden ring for example I get random shutters.

And I know it's not my PC, as I had a worse PC before and it ran flawless, this is a newer higher end PC with a better processor. Better graphics card.

Yet it runs worse, like at most Windows 11 should consume 4gb ram if not less.

Yes I could always get more RAM and upgrade and yes I will get some more eventually.

But I know right now I shouldn't require more and it shouldn't stutter and make the game unplayable

16gb is bare minimum these days

[Zukabazuka]

AmaiAmai님이 먼저 게시:

DemonicShadow님이 먼저 게시:

I got 2x8gb sticks DDR5 so 16GB.

But when idle on windows 11 it's using around half or more.

So basically if I try and play elden ring for example I get random shutters.

And I know it's not my PC, as I had a worse PC before and it ran flawless, this is a newer higher end PC with a better processor. Better graphics card.

Yet it runs worse, like at most Windows 11 should consume 4gb ram if not less.

Yes I could always get more RAM and upgrade and yes I will get some more eventually.

But I know right now I shouldn't require more and it shouldn't stutter and make the game unplayable

Who told you Windows 11 uses 4GB RAM or less?

If you want Windows to use less RAM you have to strip all the bloat out or use an edition that won't come with the gaming stuff (and then you add what you want). From what I understand those are not available to consumers.

I use a stripped edition of Windows for testing drivers and finding flaws and it is stripped nearly bare.

I believe you can get the stripped edition of Windows if you are in university for Computer Science or IT, though some universities may allow you to get all.

No you don't have to strip all the bloat out of Windows to get it to run under 8gb. Windows will manage just fine with it. With Windows 10 you can run it on 512mb. Not gonna be smooth but you can run it on that.

[GMC79]

Ive not moved to 11 yet, but right now on Win 10 and PC been on for like 5hours RAM usage is 6.4GB. 16 is still fine for gaming generally but 32 prefered if possible for some games win 10 or 11.

[Acheron]

Even with 64GB of ram I have to do a restart as windows 11 just devours ram, or there's a memory leak but I replaced my board and ram from the previous issue, I do think it's windows 11.

It's a garbage OS and one we are going to be forced to use in the next 2 years which is ridiculous..

[オナニー]

Im sitting here reading all these wonderful comments on my Win11 installed on an "unsupported" i7 7700k while I have Spotify open in the background, TWO different web browsers open with more than 30tabs between them both, and Steam running while just consuming 9.7GB out of 16GB.

Idk what yall are doing. Maybe check those 50 startup applications you have

[Blaagh]

can you people pls read the tooltip where it says 'code that is cached but not used right now'.. there is no need to purge that when it might be needed soon again anyway. ram does not run better just because its marked 'empty' caching makes windows go vroom

[Oyun Arşivim]

My pc has 256GB ram. It's future proof. They say 128gb will lag windows 12.

Start buying 64x2 kits. Save for future.

[Lixire]

Acheron님이 먼저 게시:

Even with 64GB of ram I have to do a restart as windows 11 just devours ram, or there's a memory leak but I replaced my board and ram from the previous issue, I do think it's windows 11.

It's a garbage OS and one we are going to be forced to use in the next 2 years which is ridiculous..

I'm using Win11 on a system with 64GB RAM. didn't have any issue with memory leaks from the side of the OS but rather only the side of badly written software that has such a bug. peaked at 24GB RAM usage while gaming + leaving a crapton of tabs on firefox with YT videos

Turn off fast startup so when you shut down the computer. Windows will properly shut down and not hibernate itself and keep an uptime of a month

[Guydodge]

16gb is the new 8gb its bare minimum in 2024
im using 5.8GB ram at idle on win11

[Guydodge]

Oyun Arşivim님이 먼저 게시:

My pc has 256GB ram. It's future proof. They say 128gb will lag windows 12.

Start buying 64x2 kits. Save for future.

lol..find a new source for information

[Vox]

Fun fact, shops still sell cheap laptops with Windows 11 and 4GB of RAM