High ram usage while idle on a windows 11 pc

Anonymous
2022-01-06T07:55:14+00:00

Just like the title goes, my laptop gets about 50~60 ram usage while idle, even though it has 16 gigs of ram. Tried checking with the task manager doesn't seem to spot anything going on. Also, I've tried fixing the registry, disabling startup applications, defragmenting drives, turning off Sysmain, as said on the Internet, but they all didn't change anything. Is there any way to fix this while not clean installing windows again?

My laptop is currently on Windows 11 build 22000,

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-12-12T14:17:48+00:00

    Of the 16GB of video RAM that shipped with your card, 8GB is reserved for graphics processing, and the remaining 8GB is available to your computer for other uses, if needed.

    Your computer has no video RAM, which means it's using your graphics card only. Either you have no integrated graphics, which is not typical these days, or your integrated graphics is disabled in the UEFI (which it should be.)

    If you are running two monitors, you could use your graphics card to drive one of the monitors, and your integrated graphics to drive the other. This would require additional software to manage.

    Other information in the image you supplied:

    Your nVidia graphics card has its own BIOS. The BIOS version is 90.6.44.809b. Today's graphics cards are more like small computers.

    Your DAC (digital-to-analog converter) is integrated in the card, and the conversion is performed in the card's own memory, which is why it's called a RAMDAC.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-12-12T08:02:35+00:00

    And we should see them in Process Manager or Task Manager,

    if not, or those tools are useless then ....

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-11T22:32:50+00:00

    Do you have an integrated GPU or a dedicated GPU?

    Issue is related to BIOS/UEFI/Windows OS assigning most of the RAM as STATICLY shared VRAM instead of allowing for a dynamic allocation.
    Followed then by not properly listing the Shared RAM as VRAM for the IGPU, making it to look like you are missing a chunk of your RAM for no reason.

    IF you have a IGPU and a dedicated GPU attempt to A. Turn off the IGPU in BIOS/UEFI or B. Set a maximum (instead of allowing auto,) amount of RAM that can be allocated as "Shared" VRAM.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-12-11T15:39:13+00:00

    I fixed it! It's really simple...just buy more RAM! I have 32G now!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-04-25T15:26:54+00:00

    Doesn't work. Not only that, but what is a windows store app? I don't see one anywhere in Processes. Even when I'm signed into the Windows store, there is no app appearing in my Processes.

    Whatever are you on about?

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