And we should see them in Process Manager or Task Manager,
if not, or those tools are useless then ....
High ram usage while idle on a windows 11 pc
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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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2024-12-12T08:53:23+00:00 Wow, Chien, you are one of the lucky ones! If only that were the case for me and so many others, and not only in this forum!
What else do you have open?
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Anonymous
2024-12-12T09:36:30+00:00 Hi Dan, Thank you for your explanation. That's quite interesting and something I would not have considered.
On a quick check, my VRAM shows 8006 MB, and shared shows 8122 MB.
Unless I'm misreading this, I have both IGPU and DGPU, so I will try your suggestions and update you on what happens.
Hopefully, it will be one of these fixes, and I will have learned something new.
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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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Anonymous
2024-12-12T20:39:34+00:00 Thank you, Chien, for your reply.
So, after Dan Nicolae Barzu's comment regarding VRAM (which I never paid attention to, obviously because I haven't experienced memory issues until now), I understand I don't have an IGPU. Further, I know RAMDAC's function and that it's integrated into my DGPU. But I didn't realize, as you said, that it's not typical NOT to have an IGPU.
I thought it was either an IGPU or a DGPU, not both. Of course, I never bothered to know for the reason I mentioned above.
So, now my question is, as Dan suggested:
"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."
Since I don't have both, is it possible to try option "B" still, or is there a way to fix the issue via the BIOS on the DGPU? If so, would the "System Video Memory: 0 MB" shown in my previous image have anything to do with fixing the issue? If that makes sense.
Not that it matters, but I attached another image of VRAM (or lack thereof) that I pulled up using a different path.