Windows 10: 37% ram usage after clean reboot and is lagging

As title states I have done a clean reboot yet for some reason almost 40% of my ram is being used. I have 8gb of ram and only really use the laptop for general streaming and website things. It's inly recently where it's started to lag and I can't even stream something on netflix. I have scanned it with the inbuilt antimalware program and it says there's no malware.I have defragmented and done a quick cleaning of files but it has made no difference. Attached is a photo of task manager after the clean reboot. No applications have been opened.

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Video starts lagging no matter the format - RAM usage error?

I’m having trouble with any form of video playback on my machine no matter if it’s played with VLC or HTML5 webvideo (Youtube) via Firefox or Edge. The preview video in Adobe Premiere is also affected.

In all cases the video starts lagging (picture and sound) after a while of opening and playing several different videos or after working some time in Premiere. I thought I had narrowed the problem down to a RAM issue but apparently, I was a victim of spurious correlation:

My machine had 16 GB RAM and the video started lagging whenever RAM usage was approaching 8 GB or RAM. I figured that the RAM was defective and although tests did not confirm this I changed all RAM blocks and increased RAM to 32 GB. However, the problem persists. Whenever task manager shows 10-11 GB of RAM usage videos start lagging. As soon as the RAM usage drops bellow these values video playback is back to normal.

I have also kept an eye on video memory. But this does not seem to be an issue as the video starts lagging no matter if video memory is used by 10 or 90%.

I am really at a loss of ideas what else I should try or check. Any suggestions?

System information:

• OS: Windows 10 Pro
  
• RAM: 32 GB (4 x 8 GB DDR3-1600 Crucial Ballistix) CPU-Z Memory
  
• HD: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500 GB
  
• CPU: Core i5 4570S CPU-Z CPU
  
• Mainboard: Intel DH87RL (newest BIOS 07/20/2015)
  
• Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1024 MB of reserved memory)
  

 

Unknown Constant RAM Usage

Hi,

To explore more on RAM usage by processes and see in-depth I advise you to open the Resource monitor, please follow the below steps.

Step 1 :

Open Task Manager

Step 2:

Click on Performance

Step 3:

At the bottom click on Open Resource Monitor

Step 4:

Under Resource Monitor windows click on Memory

Step 5:

Click on Working Set to list the top process utilizing the more RAM and then evaluate RAM usage.

Regards

Shuaib

Independent Advisor

 

Significant CPU, GPU and RAM lag spikes

My computer is having significant lag spikes. How do I make my computer's CPU, GPU and RAM go down? Any tips or suggestions? Also I use this computer for gaming. 100% gpu usage! 6.5gb ram usage! 65% cpu usage! Disk does fine, though. Windows 10, 21H2