Ryulise

Wicked Nasty Engineer
I've started to notice when I open task manager that I have an awfully high RAM usage, with my user using 3 GB of RAM and being near 95% when there's about 4 more GB being used by something unseen by the resource manager. I am on Windows 8.1 Enterprise if it means anything.

Chrome, Discord (with BetterDiscord), Battle.net, and Steam were open at this time.

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Bewbies

Mildly Menacing Medic
Looks to me like SuperFetch service is enabled. You can stop it from Services.msc or by cmd: net stop SysMain

In my experience it does very little if you've got an SSD anyway.
 

Ryulise

Wicked Nasty Engineer
Looks to me like SuperFetch service is enabled. You can stop it from Services.msc or by cmd: net stop SysMain

In my experience it does very little if you've got an SSD anyway.
Doesn't seem to be helping, thanks though.
 

Luke

Legendary Skial King
Contributor
Are you using a 32 bit, or 64 bit machine?
If you're using 32 bit - then I don't think that there's anything that can be done.
If you're using 64 bit - you should see if any of those programs have a 64 bit version.

Aside from that, Google Chrome is known to take up a lot of memory (since it does tab sandboxing)
I would personally disable Google Drive while you're not actively using it.
Go through that list from top to bottom and see if there's anything you don't recognise/need running.
 

Ryulise

Wicked Nasty Engineer
Are you using a 32 bit, or 64 bit machine?
If you're using 32 bit - then I don't think that there's anything that can be done.
If you're using 64 bit - you should see if any of those programs have a 64 bit version.

Aside from that, Google Chrome is known to take up a lot of memory (since it does tab sandboxing)
I would personally disable Google Drive while you're not actively using it.
Go through that list from top to bottom and see if there's anything you don't recognise/need running.
64-bit.

With Chrome and other non-background apps closed (does not include Steam and the like), I still have a large memory usage thats around 3GB, but only 500MB if even that is from my user.
 

Luke

Legendary Skial King
Contributor
64-bit.

With Chrome and other non-background apps closed (does not include Steam and the like), I still have a large memory usage thats around 3GB, but only 500MB if even that is from my user.

What information do you see on the "Users" tab?
 

Luke

Legendary Skial King
Contributor
No, I have 8 GB of RAM. I am using 3.6GB which is nowhere near 75%.

It is probably in cached memory, if you need it then it will be used.
Shouldn't cause you any issues if it's not in any of the processes you can see.