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post #1 of 18
8/5/12 at 12:54am
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My ram is really running quite high. I have 6gb of ram and it runs at 1.8 gb's idle. I play SC2 quite often and its sad that i have to play on low settings. Few months ago I was running on Ultra with 18 tabs of porn open(not really more like 17) and it wouldn't hiccup. Now if I run it on medium with nothing open it's slower then a wheel chair going up a steep hill. Norton picks up nothing, when I go to tasks they are all less then 50,000 KB so nothing really taking up my memory.

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post #2 of 18
8/5/12 at 12:58am
What do you mean by High?
like hot?
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post #3 of 18
8/5/12 at 12:59am
The more ram you have the more ram WIn 7 will use on a 8gb system you most likely see 2.25-2.5gb idle usage. When you are running sc2 what is your ram usage? Have you tried running this program to see if it picks up anything?
Edited by The_chemist21 - 8/5/12 at 1:11am
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post #4 of 18
8/5/12 at 1:07am
So how much RAM are you using now?
if it is less then 5GB's you should be fine.
Edited by QuietlyLinux - 8/5/12 at 1:43am
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post #5 of 18
8/5/12 at 1:12am
i'd say your ram is running low since 2/3 of it is just sitting around doing nothing
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post #6 of 18
8/5/12 at 1:14am
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By high I mean it's running at 1.8 ghz idle ( around 28%)
The main reason I'm concerned is because it stopped playing SC2 and I don't remember it having ram run that high a few months ago.
I recently updated my drivers for my GPU it seemed to help a little. I don't know if I should wipe the whole computer (with a backup of course) and just restart with a fresh set of windows 7. My wife uses this computer and has a bunch of her shi-I mean valuable documents on this laptop. It's not nearly full though it still has 380 GB of free space so...

As of right now I have excel and 9 IE9( I know she hates chrome though so...) tabs open (one podcast) and its running at 65 percent. The weird thing is I don't believe it's a virus or something because when it's idle the i7 runs at 0%.
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post #7 of 18
8/5/12 at 1:24am
I think you just need to clean up the HDD and defrag it. Is the hard drive 5400 rpm by any chance? can you provide make / model of your laptop?
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post #8 of 18
8/5/12 at 1:27am
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Laptops a Dell XPS 17 2011. I tried a defrag and it when its analyzed it has says a defrag is not needed. All drivers are up to date as well.
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post #9 of 18
8/5/12 at 1:35am
Actually It might be a virus but you would know better.
I am still confused is it you CPU or ram that is running high.
So is it like running at 5GB's at idle or you CPU or what, I am really confused?
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8/5/12 at 1:42am
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Idle RAM usage means nothing, unless it's practically full just sitting doing nothing. All I have open right now is Firefox with 5 tabs and folding and my 6 GB is 46% full. Windows should allocate RAM to Starcraft when you're playing. Is your RAM full while you're playing? You wouldn't see slowdowns in-game unless it was completely full.

Edit: QuietlyLinux- he means that at idle, 1.8 of his 6 GB (he mistakenly typed Ghz) is filled up.
Edited by aroc91 - 8/5/12 at 1:46am
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