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AngryBear37
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Okay so im running into a strange problem since october or november.
For some reason the virtual memory gets assigned more and more space for no apparent reason.
For example, this morning i've cleared up about 1GB of old data / maps.
In this case it was the PCDr folders from Dell i no longer use.
My C disk (which is the OS disk, a small 120GB or 108GB really disk), anyway, before i deleted those maps/folders?
I had 51.1GB of freespace left, after deleting folders, roughly 51.8! yay!! right?
Nope, now i got 50.7GB left.. so using WinDirStat, i can see it all went to the pagefile.sys.
And indeed, that has grown since this morning from roughly 12.1GB to about 13.8GB, for no reason at all.
Naturally i've ran common commands like CHKDSK, SFC /scannow also using thirdparty programs to verify the results like crystaldisk for the smartdata etc.
All report no problems, everything is 100% good and in order.
I have no clue how to fix this or whats even causing it, i know i can set the virtual memory manually, but truth be told, im not 100% sure what i'd be doing despite the fact i am an above average "windows 10" user.
To me as a relative layman, it feels like it all started due to a memory leak in X4 foundations (the game), which led my system for the first time ever im my entire lifetime of using computer (almost 30 years now) to a "resource-exhaustion-detector" event, meaning virtual memory apparantly got very low and yeh.
But to me it seems like it started with that, like somehow the space got lost and now the virtual memory controller? keeps trying to add more space when its not needed.. or something like that.
Its not doing it all the time ofcourse, or else i'd have zero room left, but something weird is going on for sure.
I really need some help with this, either this is a windows 10 (home edition) bug or im doing something wrong here lol.
FYI system specs : I7 5820k, 16GBddr, gtx 980, windows 10 home edition fully up to date.
2 harddrives, a small SSD 120GB, and a 2TB standard HDD for games/apps/po..stuff/etc.
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For some reason the virtual memory gets assigned more and more space for no apparent reason.
For example, this morning i've cleared up about 1GB of old data / maps.
In this case it was the PCDr folders from Dell i no longer use.
My C disk (which is the OS disk, a small 120GB or 108GB really disk), anyway, before i deleted those maps/folders?
I had 51.1GB of freespace left, after deleting folders, roughly 51.8! yay!! right?
Nope, now i got 50.7GB left.. so using WinDirStat, i can see it all went to the pagefile.sys.
And indeed, that has grown since this morning from roughly 12.1GB to about 13.8GB, for no reason at all.
Naturally i've ran common commands like CHKDSK, SFC /scannow also using thirdparty programs to verify the results like crystaldisk for the smartdata etc.
All report no problems, everything is 100% good and in order.
I have no clue how to fix this or whats even causing it, i know i can set the virtual memory manually, but truth be told, im not 100% sure what i'd be doing despite the fact i am an above average "windows 10" user.
To me as a relative layman, it feels like it all started due to a memory leak in X4 foundations (the game), which led my system for the first time ever im my entire lifetime of using computer (almost 30 years now) to a "resource-exhaustion-detector" event, meaning virtual memory apparantly got very low and yeh.
But to me it seems like it started with that, like somehow the space got lost and now the virtual memory controller? keeps trying to add more space when its not needed.. or something like that.
Its not doing it all the time ofcourse, or else i'd have zero room left, but something weird is going on for sure.
I really need some help with this, either this is a windows 10 (home edition) bug or im doing something wrong here lol.
FYI system specs : I7 5820k, 16GBddr, gtx 980, windows 10 home edition fully up to date.
2 harddrives, a small SSD 120GB, and a 2TB standard HDD for games/apps/po..stuff/etc.
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