hey all. I’ve tried different ram, a different windows version, I’ve messed around in bios and updated it as well. How can i get my pc to register the rest of my ram??

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  • djstini@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I know this might not be helpful… but umm… have you tried nit using windows?

    Since the PC shows the full 16gb it must be registering it. So something inside windows must be occupying the rest of the space.

    I’ve seen windows alone go up to 4+ GB so the ~8GB your missing here aren’t unrealistic depending on what programs are running in the background.

    • Grimpen@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I remember an old HP driver that would just take up all the unused RAM, until it was needed. Then it usually used enough less RAM to let whatever happen. This is some time ago, but I wonder if some Windows application is “reserving” RAM.

      I’d recommend a more detailed look at per app and per process RAM usage. Maybe look at Process Explorer? See how RAM usage changes under load?

    • NewtAmbrose@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Only issue is most of what I use it for is gaming. Do you know any Linux distro that would be best for that? I would also like forge launcher for games with the partner

    • PenguinTD@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      there might be hidden ram drives that helps offset some I/O to the slower SSD/sata drives. (Edit: like my Radeon replay buffer I config it to save to Ram instead of to disk, I have 128GB so I can afford keeping those buffers in ram.)