Windows 10: Memory 99%

Okay so lately I have been noticing my Memory spike up to 80% then 90% and higher up to 99% even while playing a game. Even after closing said game the memory would keep spiking. It feels like the longer the computer is on, the more it keeps increasing in Memory load. I have very little knowledge of computers...

I updated my graphic card drivers already. Here a few screenshots of my problem:







Also, I went away from my computer for maybe 30 minutes to an hour, and this is what I came back to (apologies for bad picture quality, but I think you can see the problem) it was completely frozen and there were weird things on my desktop, windows wrongly cascading and whatnot, I couldn't do anything so I forcefully shut it down and restarted it. Now it works but I wonder for how long?) :




I'd also like to mention that this is a 2000 computer and it's BRAND NEW, here are the specs:



Graphics Card: GTX 980.

Please help me :/

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99% memory usage of 8GB of memory?

Well disabling the page file worked but I would not recommend this as a permanent solution.

To do that: Right click start menu button > Control panel > System > Advanced system settings > Advanced tab > under Performance hit settings > Advanced tab > Under virtual memory hit Change.. > Unselect Automatically
manage paging file size for all drives and click each drive that has a paging file size other than "None" and check No paging file then hit the Set button. Click through the warnings, restart the PC when asked.

Do the above and then re-enable it with a set page file size. How high you set it depends on your current physical RAM. I'd suggest making it to a total of 10GB memory (inc. Page file). So if you had 6GB of physical RAM then set the page file to 4GB, etc.
If you have a huge amount that is over 10GB of RAM then I would recommend at least 1GB so the system can update the event log and dump a sys log in case of BSOD.

I believe the issue may have been when upgrading to Windows 10 the page file fragmented to all hell and defaulted back to "Automatically manage page file" which is known to cause issues anyway. So manually setting this page file size practically eliminates
any fragmentation issues and should hopefully fix your problem.

Microsoft need to look into this, and there is no reply from them after all this time. Not exactly impressed with their forum staff. Assuming they have any.

 

99% memory usage of 8GB of memory?

Well disabling the page file worked but I would not recommend this as a permanent solution.

To do that: Right click start menu button > Control panel > System > Advanced system settings > Advanced tab > under Performance hit settings > Advanced tab > Under virtual memory hit Change.. > Unselect Automatically manage paging file size for all drives
and click each drive that has a paging file size other than "None" and check No paging file then hit the Set button. Click through the warnings, restart the PC when asked.

Will update this post after I re-enable the paging file and use the computer for an hour or more and see how it goes.

Either way, how this could have gotten past the Microsoft Insider Program I will never know.

 

Your non-paged pool seems to be the issue, it is normally 100-200MB. Something is not releasing the pool after closing.

Does this problem happen when you have not yet opened any program?
Does this problem happen in safe mode?

Check in resource monitor for pagefaults in the 'Memory' tab, you can find resource monitor below in the 'Performance' tab in task manager,.

Please fill in your system specsPlease follow this tutorial and download the tool. The tool will give you detailed information about your system specs, please fill in your system specs more completely including PSU, cooling and other used stuff like mouse, keyboard, monitor, case, etc.
The PSU, cooling and other stuff are NOT mentioned in the tool.How to fill in your system specs:

 

A high non paged pool value would normally be caused by a driver problem, possibly malware. Not likely a process. Sorry I can't help further.

 

Indeed, but there are many programs who use drivers.