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Old April 8, 2009, 03:51 PM
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hi guys, My pc is being weird, on my G15 performance monitor AND windows task manager, it says "78% RAM usage, and 7% cpu usage" is this weird?
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Vista? If yes, then it's normal. Vista will preload commonly used apps into ram so load times are lessened.
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Vista? If yes, then it's normal. Vista will preload commonly used apps into ram so load times are lessened.
But not to 78% from my experience. At the most, half.
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Depends on what you use.
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My XP64 sometime will just eat all the the RAM.
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Have you checked task manager to see if there were any programs with a memory leak?
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In task manager, check to see if there's a process called audiodg.exe eating all your memory. It's Vista's sound processing thing and was eating 1.25GB of my RAM after playing a couple games. Fixed now after disabling some sound blaster stuff, but might be something you may be experiencing.
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i have noticed that nero and crysis both use as much ram as they can get. both my machines i game and do video encoding will use up all the ram 4 on machine and 6 gigs on the other ( under x64 vista ) just to let you know
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how many processes do you have running?

Go to MSConfig, Startup, and disable EVERYTHING, then go to the services tab, tick off "Hide all Microsoft Services" and disable everything that's left.
(this is just to see if there's something odd running that you've installed)

IF this fixes the problem, you know where to look to find the issue.

Just start enabling the important stuff (Adobe is NOT important, and neither is iTunes)

Or, try Hijack This...if you know how to use it, great, if not, let us know, someone here will help with it...
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Old April 9, 2009, 08:32 AM
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i'm at idle right now and it shows 3%-6% cpu and 32%ram.
windows task manager shows 59 processes.
What "processes" do i need to have running ?
Do i still need audiodg running if i have the creative volume panel running?
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