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Available Physical Memory VERY less than Installed Ram, Same problem with Virtual Memory....

Anonymous
2021-09-12T08:13:29+00:00

Hey So, I am using a Dell Inspirion 20-3052 and resetted my pc a few days ago, and now I have this issue where I am not Able to open ANY game as almost all of them require more than 3gb.

So as you can see from the above image The available and total physical memory is so less.

My pc is 64x based so yea Please help me fix this.

Please tell me if you need more info

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Performance and system failures

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  1. DaveM121 811.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2021-09-12T08:47:44+00:00

    Hi TheGreatPizzaThrower,

    I am Dave, I will help you with this.

    1

    Open Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc)

    Select the Performance Tab and then click Memory

    Please post a screenshot of that full Task Manager window.

    2

    Click your Start Button, then just type dxdiag and press Enter

    Select the Display tab in the DirectX utility

    Please post a screenshot of that tab

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-09-12T08:58:23+00:00

    Sure Here it is

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  3. DaveM121 811.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2021-09-12T09:11:41+00:00

    Hi TheGreatPizzaThrower,

    You have Intel HD Graphics, that does not have any VRAM and Windows has set aside 2.1GB of Shared RAM for that graphics option, leaving you with 5.9GB out of 8GB of RAM.

    This is normal, Windows dynamically allocates RAM to hardware when needed, that amount is not fixed, it is allocated depending on what you are doing with your PC.

    If you only have integrated graphics on your system, with no dedicated video card, then for better game performance, you should purchase more RAM, because Windows 10 on its own will use 2GB+ of RAM for the operating system and with that and the Hardware Reserved amount, that does not leave much RAM for the games.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-09-12T09:21:51+00:00

    Oh now I see why Total Ram is less than 8gb but how about the available ram?

    Also quick update I got rid of something called Paging or whatever and it helped me with the available ram but Its still not 5.9 in available ram as you just said

    Can this be improved?

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  5. DaveM121 811.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2021-09-12T09:25:59+00:00

    Hi TheGreatPizzaThrower

    The Page File (Virtual RAM) is just space on your hard drive that is used when you run out of physical RAM. That is not really what you want to be using, because hard drive access is a lot slower than RAM access, especially for playing games and constantly using virtual memory will affect the lifespan of your drive.

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