Windows 8.1 RAM & Disk problems

[BlurredEyes]

So after some patch last month I've been having serious RAM & Disk problems. The load increases slowly to like 86% after having the PC open for some hours, no matter am I playing or just having it open idle.

Wondering if this is just me (according to the internet I'm not) and if we have any solutions which could work. I've already tried some but so far they haven't been successful.

[gt24]

RAM and disk are separate things (and thus the "load" would mean highly different things too). Since disk "load" wildly varies during use and memory "load" does not, I will assume this is a memory concern.

Before proceeding, you said you want a solution where the load is reduced. Why? If there is no specific reason why (other than having a lower number) then you could very well cause more problems by accomplishing that goal (if nothing is wrong then changing something will likely mean you breaking something). So before proceeding, it is wise to know why you want to do this and be sure that this "load" is the real cause of your problem.

Anyway, Windows since XP has used Superfetch, meaning that Windows dumps things into memory that it thinks you might use in the future. This means that Windows runs faster without much of a drawback (if it needs more memory then it starts throwing stuff out of memory to accommodate you). However, if you prefer not to have that or if you need a ton of free memory at all times then there is a way to disable Superfetch.

(I don't recommend you do this though.)

http://www.maketecheasier.com/prevent-w ... ch-memory/

(The instructions should be the same for Windows 8.)

Standing memory load on my work computer is around 52%. I will need to see what is the general load on my home computer later. Note that I am using 64 bit Google Chrome so the browser takes up less memory than you would expect.

That being said, I don't really run into memory low situations here (unless I am really hammering on this computer). At home, I only ran into a memory out condition once in the past (with Borderlands) which I fixed by getting more memory (it was a 3 Gb system at the time).

[Snolleeh]

Re-install everything

[BlurredEyes]

The thing is that this only started occurring like a month ago. Before that everything was completely fine and I could leave my PC open for a couple of days without any problems. Some say that this might be a memory leak issue with AMD graphics and W8, some say it's Nvidia aswell. Something it has been linked to is playing on full screen but having problems with even my Youtube after half a day, I highly doubt that.

I've already disabled superfetch and it did fix the problem. For 3 days.

I've honestly lost hope with this as I'm unbale to play or Photoshop anything after using the computer even slightly. I might have to go for the ultimate solution, going back to factory settings. Christ I really don't want to do that, having the drive full of Styeam games which would take a week to download again with my internet...

[BlurredEyes]

Double post but oh well;

Another thing I've heard that W8 wouldn't really work well with any 3rd party Antivirus. I run Norton, previously Avast. Do you happen to have the Windows Defender running?

[gt24]

You have a time frame (a month ago). System restore back to when things weren't bad and go from there. It won't always fix the problem but usually it does fix things.

So you say memory is the problem? Run an elevated (admin) command prompt window, run tasklist, and share the results with us (in code tags), something like the following...

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[code]C:\WINDOWS\system32>tasklist

Image Name                     PID Session Name        Session#    Mem Usage
========================= ======== ================ =========== ============
System Idle Process              0 Services                   0          4 K
System                           4 Services                   0      5,292 K
smss.exe                       336 Services                   0        524 K
csrss.exe                      552 Services                   0      3,492 K
wininit.exe                    616 Services                   0      2,316 K
....
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We can see what is being a memory hog that way.

Also tell us how much memory you have an if you are running a 64 bit system or not.

Double post but oh well;

Another thing I've heard that W8 wouldn't really work well with any 3rd party Antivirus. I run Norton, previously Avast. Do you happen to have the Windows Defender running?

You are hearing a lot of things and those things can make you more confused.

You state that Windows 8 doesn't work well with 3rd party antivirus programs. That's false. Windows 8 is fine if you install your own antivirus or use Windows Defender.

You run Norton antivirus and think that is a problem. That is... an interesting though. It could be the problem. The way to determine that is to uninstall the antivirus program for a while and see if your symptoms go away. I say uninstall because Avast gave me nightmares of problems on various systems (Windows 7, Windows in relation to internet connectivity right when I decided to give that whole thing the boot. Antivirus programs can absolutely wreck your computer if they are misbehaving.

Note that Norton is one of the antivirus programs that you usually cannot uninstall successfully. You need to run a separate removal tool to completely remove it. This page will explain more, if you want to try to remove your antivirus and determine if that fixes the problem.

https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/hom ... file_en_us

[BlurredEyes]

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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. Kaikki oikeudet pidätetään.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>tasklist

Image Name                     PID Session Name        Session#    Mem Usage
========================= ======== ================ =========== ============
System Idle Process              0 Services                   0          4 K
System                           4 Services                   0      2 796 K
smss.exe                       324 Services                   0        324 K
csrss.exe                      460 Services                   0      2 700 K
wininit.exe                    568 Services                   0        720 K
services.exe                   668 Services                   0      4 436 K
lsass.exe                      676 Services                   0      7 644 K
svchost.exe                    748 Services                   0      8 668 K
svchost.exe                    776 Services                   0      5 268 K
atiesrxx.exe                   904 Services                   0        552 K
svchost.exe                    948 Services                   0     22 848 K
svchost.exe                    976 Services                   0      8 792 K
svchost.exe                    992 Services                   0     35 816 K
svchost.exe                   1020 Services                   0     12 080 K
svchost.exe                    656 Services                   0      9 908 K
spoolsv.exe                   1248 Services                   0      2 940 K
svchost.exe                   1272 Services                   0     16 324 K
atkexComSvc.exe               1392 Services                   0      5 648 K
mDNSResponder.exe             1484 Services                   0      1 264 K
PnkBstrA.exe                  1552 Services                   0        792 K
dasHost.exe                   1616 Services                   0      7 020 K
RzMaelstromVADStreamingSe     1668 Services                   0     68 488 K
svchost.exe                   1724 Services                   0      4 072 K
TeamViewer_Service.exe        1776 Services                   0      3 204 K
audiodg.exe                   1792 Services                   0      8 924 K
MsMpEng.exe                   1952 Services                   0    103 372 K
GameScannerService.exe        2036 Services                   0     12 064 K
SearchIndexer.exe             3824 Services                   0     19 344 K
svchost.exe                   3864 Services                   0      6 828 K
NisSrv.exe                    3956 Services                   0      3 064 K
alg.exe                       3112 Services                   0        764 K
svchost.exe                   3944 Services                   0      1 776 K
svchost.exe                   4120 Services                   0      7 692 K
dllhost.exe                   5524 Services                   0      1 900 K
WUDFHost.exe                  7108 Services                   0      8 040 K
wmpnetwk.exe                  9536 Services                   0      2 496 K
taskhost.exe                 27872 Services                   0      9 900 K
csrss.exe                   355356 Console                    2      4 252 K
winlogon.exe                355388 Console                    2        768 K
dwm.exe                     222692 Console                    2     30 796 K
atieclxx.exe                355848 Console                    2      3 088 K
itype.exe                   355408 Console                    2      1 716 K
ipoint.exe                  355816 Console                    2      2 016 K
taskhostex.exe              356000 Console                    2      4 756 K
explorer.exe                  4956 Console                    2     95 376 K
SkyDrive.exe                  2296 Console                    2      3 200 K
RtkNGUI64.exe               356720 Console                    2      3 168 K
Steam.exe                   356752 Console                    2     59 464 K
puush.exe                   357008 Console                    2        544 K
Dropbox.exe                 357248 Console                    2     65 520 K
sidebar.exe                 357328 Console                    2     28 904 K
Xfire.exe                     4660 Console                    2     19 744 K
RzSynapse.exe               357424 Console                    2    100 244 K
MOM.exe                     357716 Console                    2      5 460 K
SettingSyncHost.exe         357980 Console                    2      9 708 K
CCC.exe                       8956 Console                    2     36 560 K
steamwebhelper.exe          358684 Console                    2     19 560 K
SteamService.exe            359268 Services                   0      4 676 K
RzStats.Manager.exe         359644 Console                    2     29 600 K
RazerIngameEngine.exe       360240 Console                    2      4 956 K
RzCefRenderProcess.exe      360136 Console                    2      6 344 K
steamwebhelper.exe          684684 Console                    2     18 332 K
taskeng.exe                 758116 Services                   0      4 420 K
livecomm.exe                725468 Console                    2     19 292 K
RuntimeBroker.exe           768780 Console                    2     12 984 K
SpotifyWebHelper.exe        769456 Console                    2      6 468 K
cmd.exe                     770984 Console                    2      2 360 K
conhost.exe                 771012 Console                    2      4 764 K
tasklist.exe                766488 Console                    2      5 520 K
WmiPrvSE.exe                743048 Services                   0      5 740 K

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

There we go, had to have time to put it under stress to get results.

[gt24]

I'm not seeing anything amiss from that listing. I'm going out on hypothetical limbs here.

Razor Synapse is in that listing, which is your keyboard and/or mouse driver. That driver is known to have interesting and severe issues and you might want to investigate further.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/ ... s_my_boot/

If you are at the very end of things to try and you are going to do something major (like a reformat), it might be worth it to completely uninstall Razor Synapse and see if the problems go away.

[Chem]

Thats not a driver, its a secondary install software so you can tweak hotkeys on a mouse or keyboard and it will sync the settings to the razor server and store them there in-case you need them elsewhere. But yes, it uses an odd amount of memory for what its doing and just having that program on startup causes my PC to boot up 30 seconds slower then without it lol. But, without it I can't use my mouse buttons in League of Legends since its an older razor and the keys are bound to the forward/back buttons on a web browser and cant be used in a game like that.

But like gt said, everything seems to be normal, you have nothing running at higher (or abnormal) memory usage then it should be when that list was compiled. I have Windows Defender disabled on my Windows 8.1 Laptop and run AVG (cause Norton sucks) and havent had any issues yet with memory though.

[hacker assassin]

I'm just gonna throw my experience and solution in here. I used to have this problem with some laptops a while back. The disk usage would be nearly maxed out along with the memory even though nothing was running. As snolleeh said, do a full OS reinstall. If you have had the computer for a while, there's a chance you could've picked up some viruses that aren't usually detectable by virus removal programs. But if you don't want to go through that trouble just yet, do try to update all of your drivers. I have been told that updating helps, but so far it hasn't helped me. I guess situations like these are different for everyone :/

[BlurredEyes]

Replacing Razer mouse with Steelseries one helped a lot. No more issues.