Windows 10: My RAM reaches 99% usage and PC becomes unresponsive even with all major process closed.

As soon as I startup my PC, ram usage is about 6/7 gb out of 16 with some chrome tabs opened, discord, twitch app and other small things. But as soon as I start to open up some games, RAM usage slowly ramps up till it reaches 99% usage and PC becomes barely responsive and sometimes even totally freezes. After shoutdown, everything is back to normal until I start doing something.
I maneged to get to task manager while PC was barely functional and it says 99% memory usage but the total memory used by the open process is 600mb out of 16 gb. How is that possible?
I'll list some apps that I ran frequently these days when the problem occurred:
-Apex Legends
-World of Warcraft
-Utorrent
I would like to know what's this problem's name and how to fix this. Are my RAMs fried? Do I need to change them?

- Yes, I use task manager in advanced mode
- Yes, I closed E V E R Y T H I N G possible but pc barely functions even after that
- No, don't tell me it's "normal" in windows 10 because it's not, never happened to me before
- No, it's not potato PC

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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

 

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