How to allocate RAM to various programs, in Windows 7 - ?

Hi margeryb,

You can see how much memory is being allocated by looking in the Windows Task Manager.

Unfortunately there is not a way to allocate a certain amount of system memory to a specific program, so the best option is usually to add more RAM to your computer.

How much RAM do you currently have?

Adobe requires 1GB of RAM to run the latest version of Photoshop.

My general recommendation is to have double the minimum requirements, which would be 2GB of RAM. The more RAM you have, the better your computer will be able to perform, especially when using very powerful programs like Adobe Photoshop.

Hope this helps!

In addition to what Rob C. said, you can view memory usage in Task Manager by doing the following:

1. Open Task Manager.
2. In the Processes tab, click View then Select Columns.
3. Check off Memory - Working Set and click OK.

You should now see the maount of memory a program is using.

Rifdhan

Hi margeryb,

You can see how much memory is being allocated by looking in the Windows Task Manager.

Unfortunately there is not a way to allocate a certain amount of system memory to a specific program, so the best option is usually to add more RAM to your computer.

How much RAM do you currently have?

Adobe requires 1GB of RAM to run the latest version of Photoshop.

My general recommendation is to have double the minimum requirements, which would be 2GB of RAM. The more RAM you have, the better your computer will be able to perform, especially when using very powerful programs like Adobe Photoshop.

Hope this helps!

My problem is that I have 8GB of DDR3 RAM and 2GB of GDDR5 RAM, yet my computer refuses to allocate anything more than roughly 750MB. Whenever I try running a game that would require more than that, Windows will warn me that it's low on memory then terminate the program, despite the fact that I still have 65% of my RAM free.

Thirsk --

You're replying to a very old post.  In general, you should start your own question.

First, GDDR5 RAM is "graphics" RAM (that's the "G") which is, or should be, installed only on your video card and not on your motherboard.

Second, assuming that you have 8GB of DDR3 RAM installed on your motherboard, you will not be able to use it all unless you are using Windows 7 64-bit.  If you have the 32-bit version of Windows 7, you'll only be able to use about 3 to 3.5 GB.

Please do the following:

• Type msinfo32 into the Search box and press Enter
• Click in the System Information window and Edit > Select All (or press CTRL+A) and Edit > Copy (or press CTRL+C)
• Then Paste (press CTRL+V) the data into your reply here