When I play DDO, I also have chrome and Explorer open. This was never a problem until the anniversary update. Now I get screen messages saying I need to close something because I am running out of memory. Task manager shows memory usage at 89 - 91%. Even after I closed Chrome, usage is still at 79%.
I have an Alienware M17 laptop with 16Gb RAM. What changed in the anniversary update?
Hi, nothing that had that specific effect that I'm (yet) aware of...
Have you ever changed your page file setting from its default?
Have you checked your page file settings are still appropriate?
Have you tried to identify what processes are using RAM? If you can't see this in task manager, try e.g. Process Explorer (free from MS)
Thanks, I forgot about the page file. I will look for Process Explorer.
Your recommendation was the fix.. Thank you. Somehow my pagefile got set to 0. I enabled it on my second internal drive and my RAM usage went from 89% to 23%. With my game, Google Chrome, and Explorer all open, it only gets up to about 35%. What an improvement.
I also downloaded Process Explorer. Very nice app. thanks for that also.
Thanks
Great- amazing how much in the way of resources is used.. you'd think 16Gb would be huge.
Odd the setting changed...
Now I remember running a program I wrote for design proving and replica board testing of a pair of PCBs using the first single chip up our company used which ran in 64k bytes of RAM - 8 cards each with 8kbytes of RAM. The up had 512 words of 12 bit memory.
I would think 16Gb would be more than enough to run a game, browser, and Explorer without ram usage going to 80%. I wonder if the anniversary update added more bloat..
I've not noticed any change.. and you're down to a much lower usage level as things can be paged out. I don't know what your game needs in terms of resources, so can't comment. Your VRAM is perhaps 3Gb or so max, so you could be using system memory for graphics.
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