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My system is Ideapad Gaming 3 16IAH7 with 16 GB RAM.
After a clean reinstall, my virtual memory usage has been higher by at least 10-20% despite not only having the same amount of processes but even a little fewer. The reason for my clean reinstall was due to the poor and inconsistent performance, something which seems to be no longer the case. I wish to know if the reason for higher virtual memory usage is the cost of performance being better now.
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Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.
1
Windows should not start using virtual memory until your RAM is mostly all used up, please provide a screenshot of where you are seeing Windows is using high virtual memory.
2
Open Task Manager, then elect the Performance tab and click Memory on the left.
Please provide a screenshot of that window.
3
After you clean installed Windows, did you install a full set of device drivers from the support page for your laptop on the manufacturers website?
I did not as my device has all the drivers from the support page in manufacturers website already.
Also I use memreduct.
Thank your for the screenshot, I do not see any problem indicated with your RAM usage or the paged pool on your Virtual Memory, you have an efficient system according to that screenshot.
Most likely because of memreduct here's the virtual memory usage
