Memory With Ultimate X64 SP1: 10% Memory But Free RAM Sits At 0
Jul 3, 2008
I have a problem with Vista Ultimate x64 SP1, I always seem to lose all my free RAM within an hour regardless of system activity, even while idling. I have noticed an svchost.eve process runs each time I reboot which seems to bloat constantly although when I close it down it only frees up about 800MB, what's happening to the rest of my 8GB??? When I launch Task Manager it says I'm only using 10% Memory but free RAM sits at 0?!?!
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Aug 23, 2008
I am fairly new to the forums, and VERY new to Vista x64. The machine is new, and I was trying out some apps and games, I was in Secondlife when I got an error messege saying I was out of memory and needed to free up memory. I shut down the app and restarted it. Runs but I watched Task manager and saw my free memory down to almost nothing after an hour or so. The cached seems very high.
I did alittle research and decided to set a second page file on my 1TB hard drive, (OS is on the other HHD's )( regulated by system for size ) I'm not really sure whats going on. Example of just task manager and this page openis attached. Again, any help would be great in getting the memory set up on here optimal.
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Oct 17, 2009
I am trying to run some 10 year old software. It installed fine, but when I try to run it the program first does a check to make sure I have enough available RAM. When it checks my Free RAM it says I have -130MB of Free RAM and the program won't even try to start. Now - I understand from reading these forums that VISTA ties up all available RAM. Is there a way to tell VISTA to keep some 80MB or so free so that my software will start?
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Feb 6, 2009
I need help identifying processes running and how to shutdown so that I can free up memory...I have anywhere from 80 to +90 processes running. I have 2GB memory and 80%-90% is always being used? I have like 12-16 svchost running and have no idea what they are.
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Mar 7, 2009
I have 4 gigs of RAM and Vista Home Premium. My memory free goes from 4000 to 9 in about seven minutes flat. What is going on? Dropping to 0 is sorta nuts with 4 gigs of ram and only explorer running.
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Feb 23, 2007
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Oct 28, 2008
I recently upgraded my laptop to Vista Ultimate x64 SP1. I have 4GB of memory and the System screen reports that (it did not prior to SP1). However, when I look a the physical memory report in Task Manager it still only says 3072 which is 3GB. I upgraded to the 64bit OS so I could use all of my memory but if it isn't going to use it, then I am going to Ghost back to my 32bit OS.
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Mar 30, 2009
I recently built a new computer. I put vista ultimate 64bit on it for the os. Everything seems to be ok so far except for the memory issue. I installed 12 gigs of ram on the mother board and vista only show if have this.
Installed Physical memory 12.0 gb
Total Physical memory 3.99 gb
Available Physical memory 10.3 b
Total Virtual memory 23.9gb
Available virtual memory 22.3gb
Page file space 12.3 gb
This seems to me that all the memory is not seen. The motherboard shows all 12 gb in bios. What can I do to get vista to see and use all the ram, I do video editing I thought I doing a good thing with more ram and vista 64bit.
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Nov 29, 2009
I had 4GB physical memoryon the PC. With Windows vista 32 bit, available memory is shown as 3.3GB. I asked and was told that only under 64 bit windows, will the available memory be 4GB. When I upgraded to windows 7, I chosed 64 bit, but the available memory shown in the system is still 3.3 GB. Why is this and is there a way to make the full 4GB available? It's possible that my video card is using RAM instead of its own RAM. If I install a video card with its own RAM, will the full 4GB be available?
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May 16, 2010
I had 4GB physical memoryon the PC. With Windows vista 32 bit, available memory is shown as 3.3GB. I asked on usenet and was told that only under 64 bit windows, will the available memory be 4GB. When I upgraded to windows 7, I chosed 64 bit (I did clean install of course), but the available memory shown in the system is still 3.3 GB. This is show in both task manager under performance->Physical memory->total, and 'property of My Computer'->Installed memory (4GB/3.3 GB usable)........
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Mar 19, 2008
Anyone upgraded on vista ultimate x64 from 2gb to 4gb of memory, whats the performance boost? id reckon quite good, but how good really? i play a lot of games..
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May 4, 2008
just curious if there is way to get ultimate 32bit to recognize more memory. because the computer is upgradable to 8gig of memory and evens has 64bit
processors. buts for some reason hp installed 32bit ultimate. so if any one know how mes can get vista to recognize.
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Feb 9, 2008
I have recently swapped my OCZ 4GB (1GBX4) DDR2 @ 800 MHZ and upgraded to OCZ 8GB Sli (2GBX4) @ 800 MHZ on my Ultimate X64 bit. Installed flawlessly, but can someone please give me a logical answer as to why on my system properties it shows only 7,678MB of memory?? I thought X64 OS shows all memory, and I know my mobo can handle up to 8GB @800MHz. Also, I have installed every single Windows update, and after the upgrade to 8GB, I can see a definite increase in performance.
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Oct 17, 2009
I have 6gigs of DDR3 memory at 1600hz. Running on Vista 64bit and every now and again my memory performance just maxes out. The problem can occur around the time when I am installing something but I dont think its always this way. I have read forums where it could be the hardrives performing self diagnostics. I have all the latest patches for vista.
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Mar 26, 2009
I'm running Vista 64 Home (SP1) Premium on a homebuilt machine w/8GB (4 X 2GB modules). Windows is reporting 8 GB of Installed Physical Memory but is reporting only 4 GB of Total Physical Memory. I first noticed this when, after installing a game, the game system specs said 3092 MB of RAM.
I have checked the BIOS and it recognizes 8 GB. Memory Remapping is Enabled. Under Memory Remapping is "PCI MMIO Allocation: 4GB to 3328 MB" (?). MSConfig Boot Options shows Max Memory is not checked and no value in the box below. I tried enabling it and using 8192 as the value, but it made no difference. DxDiag shows 8 GB installed RAM. how I can get windows to make available all 8 GB of RAM? (Motherboard is ASUS Maximus II Extreme w/Intel Q9550 processor running at Q9650 clock speed, memory running at 1127 MHz
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Jul 29, 2009
I have Vista Ultimate x64 Extreme, with 8 GB of memory, Q9300, and 2 velociraptors. I do NOT overclock, but would like Vista to use more of the memory. Typical load usage of memory is 2GB - about 25% of my total memory Maximum use of memory was 3GB - I would rather have Vista use memory than to use swap file. How can I get this done?
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Aug 4, 2008
I have Vista Enterprise with 2gb of memory.
everytime i try to access a folder on my external hard drive (Toshiba 2.0 USB), it freezes explorer and and error message comes up saying out of memory, but i can't read it all because most of the window is just black.
also, before all of this started my NVidia graphics had a message pop up saying the NVIDIA Display Panel Extension cannot be created.
Possible reasons include:
Version mismatch. Reinstalling display drivers may solve this problem.
i've tried to download drivers but the only place to find them are on lenovo support and they didnt help
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Mar 23, 2008
I am putting together a new build and since PC-6400 DDR2 is sooo cheap I thought I might consider 8GB on an X38 board. I already have 2x2GB dimms, and was guessing if I went to 8GB it might be nice to have 4 identical DIMMS, which are still available (ie, another 2x2gb of the pair I have now). Anyone have wisdom about this? My main uses NOW are MS Flight Simulator, Gigastudio, and both of those benefit from at least 3GB, beyond that I don't know. I don't forsee video editing.
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Mar 23, 2008
Does Vista SP1 recognise my 8gb physically or only as being installed?
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May 1, 2008
Why vista use alot of memory?
Even fresh install new PC with Vista 64bit and not install any
applications, still more that 1GB in used memory
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May 7, 2008
I just got Vista this april for the first time Vista Ultimate 64 bit to be precise. It came with a new computer that has 4GB of Ram...which I thought would be plenty, but apparently not? Right now I have 4 programs running: Sony Vegas, Zune, Firefox and MS Word. Including all the background tasks like firewalls and all that good stuff, it says I'm using 2.65 GB memory. Ok I still have about 1.4 GB left right? Wrong...I have 12 MB?
2000 MB are cached. Whats up with that? Now Sony Vegas keeps crashing because I dont have enough ram and I cant open Windows media Player because I dont have enough ram....What happened to all my memory?
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May 5, 2008
i have 4 gig of memory on my pc. i reinstall my vista. after the installation, my machine said that i only have 3gig. where is my remaining 1 gb (i put 4gb) on it. before i reinstall it my pc read my 4gb:o of RAM. but now 3gb only.
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Jan 11, 2009
I've spent the last 2 weeks trying to confirm this. With Vista 32bit SP1, is it true that it will not only see the 4 gigs of ram installed, but use all 4 gigs as well? I've had gamers tell me that the OS will show the 4 gigs installed, but that was the only thing Sp1 did. It still can use only around 3.21 gigs.
I've also had system builders say that Vista 32bit SP1 will both show the 4 gigs, and use ALL 4 gigs. Both swear that they are right and the others don't know what they're talking about. I've built a new gaming rig and I have an OEM copy of Vista HP SP1 32 bit, and I want to be sure that I'm not wasting the 4 gigs I have installed, but I can't seem to get a consistent answer from everybody.
only controversy. Even two different MS MVP's gave me two different answers. I'm almost to the point of calling MS tech. support and asking for their best Vista tech. specialist to find out for sure. This is getting ridiculous.
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Feb 4, 2008
I am currently running both Vista 64 and Vista 32 on two different drives and I notice that when booted, 64 uses almost 1.2 gig of RAM while 32 uses only about 800meg when booted. The only thing I have on 64 that I don't on 32 is iTunes and the Adobe CS3 suite. Is this normal? If so, why does 64 use more memory than 32? I do have superfetch on for both installs - could it be this that is using the extra memory - preloading iTunes/CS3 apps maybe?
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Mar 5, 2009
I have a dell xps 600 that originally came with xp pro. 2.8 dual core and 1 gig memory. I was doing a lot of audio multi tracking and wanted to up my memory to help out with some latency problems I was having. the xps600 manual said that the mobo could handle 2 gig on 32bit and 8 gig on 64bit so I upgraded to vista ultimate and installed 8 gig. everything runs great and this solved my latency problems but there is one thing I noticed.
I use a G15 logitech keyboard which has a CPU and RAM monitor built into the LED window on the keyboard. This monitor tells me that I am usually using only 20% of my ram. Even when I am multitasking and using huge files, it never goes above 36% of ram usage. My pagefile is system managed and usually around 8.5gig at idle. Why isn't Vista utilizing more of my ram and is there a tweak
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May 1, 2009
Alright with many games that I'm playing with. There are a few things that are going on that I'm not liking. Yes I know I play Gunz The Duel, and it seems like there is screen lag or something, maybe a delay, not sure what to call it. People were telling me about all the Services that Vista uses slows it down or such like that. Is that true? Or is there another way to fix it. I also play Crysis, and problem with that game, is that it isn't using all of my RAM or memory? It only uses so much, and just leaves the rest alone. Anyway way to make it use more? Also the game supports Dual processors. I have Quad, is there a way to make it use all four of them? Also just with any games, is there a way to just make the games run faster at all without killing the graphic, cause I know my PC can handle the graphics, it just seems like my PC isnt using everything that I put into it.
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Apr 10, 2009
I'm pretty new to vista since I got my hp laptop(vista home premium x64)and I've noticed that it tends to eat up some memory. I opened up task manager before and i was using 31% after startup and after I open up a few applications and run for a bit it seems not to go much lower than 35%. Right now the only application I have running is firefox and I'm using 40%. granted there is processes running in the background such as hp stuff, anti-virus, and anti-spyware stuff along with rocketdock. but that stuff is also on after startup. Is vista always eating this much memory up like this for everyone? also, is there anyway to use less?
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Jun 30, 2008
I have an HP Desktop Pavilion m8150n, Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Windows Vista Ultimate (32), 4GB RAM, 640GB hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS. I have upgrade Vista with sp1. I have been having some problems with my pc hesitating when I'm clicking on things in a game. I have just recently upgraded my memory from 3 to 4GB, thinking this would solve my problem. It hasn't. When I go into the Task Manager, it shows Physical Memory (MB) Total 3581, Cached 2730 and only 56 Free. Is this my problem? I have a long list of processes and services running and I'm sure I don't need all of this running at the same time. This could also be causing my problem, but not sure. I have shut down some of these processes, but I'm not sure which ones I actually need to run the computer. This problem is extremely frustrating. I have 211GB free on my hard drive and the box is checked for Index drive for faster searching. I would be happy to provide any other information.
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May 6, 2008
how to make Vista recognize my 4GB of memory? I have tried the following but it did not work. BCDedit /set nx AlwaysOff, BCDedit /set pae ForceEnable
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Mar 23, 2008
I am using an Acer Aspire 5290G laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium. The laptop has 2GB RAM but I have been getting Low Memory warnings after which I have had to reload Windows. At the time the only not automatic applications running are Norton Internet Security, Messenger, iTunes and iPlayer from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
I've tried increasing the virtual memory size to min 4096Mb, max 6144Mb so I'm hoping the problem will go away but it would be useful to know whether this is some kind of known fault or if it is just that Vista is so demanding! I had been running a similar or greater load quite happily under XP Pro on another laptop with only 512Mb RAM. The only intentional difference is that this laptop is running Norton Internet Security whereas the old one was running F-Secure. If the problem persists, is it worth me adding more physical RAM and/or trying a further increase in virtual memory?
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Aug 14, 2009
I have an 8GB machine running Vista Ultimate x64 with SP2, fully patched, that keeps eating up all my 8GB of RAM within hours of a fresh reboot.
It boots clean at 26% memory usage, which then climbs up to around 85% at which point things slow down. Any attempt to select functions from already running programs, or running new ones, causes an out of memory error after this point. If I continue, I eventually run right out of memory and have to reboot.
I have tried to identify the culprit with Task Manager (with show processes from all users checked and all the relevant memory columns displayed), but not one program/process, seems to be using more than a couple of hundred megabytes, at most.
Going through the task list and killing all the non-essential ones and/or shutting down services that are not key to being able to continue running the system has not identified the problem either. Memory usage remains in the high 90%+ range and the system does not release any significant amount of memory.
Logging out and logging back in, doesn't work either.
The system can sit at the desktop, idle, for days with memory usage at 26%, but as soon as I start using it with Internet Explorer and/or Mozilla FireFox, usage starts to climb and just keeps going up as I use he system. Within an hour, or two, I am forced to reboot.
System is clean of spyware and viruses, as far as I can tell (using AVG and Windows Defender) and I can identify all the processes that I can see running.
Pagefile is 12GB, BIOS is set to use all 8GB of RAM (remapping hardware in the 4GB 32-bit window up above the 8GB of physical) and Windows reports 8GB of RAM available.
This has been going on for quite a few weeks now. The only thing that I've installed have been Windows standard Updates, through the online updater (including MSIE8). Prior to that I could run many different things without problems and even if I loaded a few large programs and memory usage climbed to 75%, it would go right back down again after closing these down.
I had a memory leak in Vista 64 with an earlier program that I was running that was also eating all my RAM (I forget the name of it, but it wasn't anything that I felt was essential and worth pursuing a fix for). This problem program did however show up in Task Manager with several gigs worth of RAM usage; so I killed and uninstalled it and everything went back to normal for quite a long time.
The problem at the moment is that I can't see what is using all the available RAM.
Anyone experienced anything similar?
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