FastNotFurious Posted May 25, 2020 Posted May 25, 2020 I have a very strange and annoying bug every time I start up my hard drive increases by 30GB, as soon as I turn off DCS it comes back almost to normal (there are 6 or 7 GB left) it's very recent and systematic someone already had a similar problem and have an idea how to solve it?
BlackLibrary Posted May 25, 2020 Posted May 25, 2020 Do you use dcs bios or flightpanels? aka WarLord DCSFlightpanels DCS-BIOS Fork DCSFlightpanels arduino-library DCSFlightpanels DCSFlightpanels-Profiles DCS FP / BIOS Discord Server
Bobik2002 Posted May 25, 2020 Posted May 25, 2020 I think it's virtual memory. When your system don't have enought memory it save it to hdd/sdd so if you have 8gb ram you can have 32 waay slower but you can have. http://forums.eagle.ru:8080/showthread.php?t=206173 Ryzen 9 5900x | 32GB DDR4 | RTX 3090 | 32GB RAM
FastNotFurious Posted May 25, 2020 Author Posted May 25, 2020 Do you use dcs bios or flightpanels? No :(
FastNotFurious Posted May 25, 2020 Author Posted May 25, 2020 I think it's virtual memory. When your system don't have enought memory it save it to hdd/sdd so if you have 8gb ram you can have 32 waay slower but you can have. http://forums.eagle.ru:8080/showthread.php?t=206173 I have 16 GB of ram so it should not be that and I do not remember having ever had this problem, in fact it is very recent, since an update of windows :(
FastNotFurious Posted May 25, 2020 Author Posted May 25, 2020 And it is instantaneous in fact as soon as I open a mission, boom I have 30 GB which is installed I don't know where
FastNotFurious Posted May 25, 2020 Author Posted May 25, 2020 My local drive is an ssd i don't know if it makes a difference
FastNotFurious Posted May 25, 2020 Author Posted May 25, 2020 Ok with the Windir software I identified what was the file which was filling it is the pagefile.sys from what i saw pagefile.sys is used when the ram memory is full but when I look in the task manager, there are only 7 GB that are used for DCS, but I have 16 GB of ram I don't understand anything anymore
Art-J Posted May 25, 2020 Posted May 25, 2020 DCS might use only 7, but the Windows itself (with any other processes / apps running in the background) probably wants to use more and thus increases the pagefile to do so. This is what I would try to investigate closer in such situation. i7 9700K @ stock speed, single GTX1070, 32 gigs of RAM, TH Warthog, MFG Crosswind, Win10.
FastNotFurious Posted May 25, 2020 Author Posted May 25, 2020 (edited) DCS might use only 7, but the Windows itself (with any other processes / apps running in the background) probably wants to use more and thus increases the pagefile to do so. This is what I would try to investigate closer in such situation. Thank you for your answer yes in fact it is 85% of ram that is used, but what surprises me is that the pagefile actually uses 19 GB which seems really huge does dcs consume as much memory? And I just noticed that even without opening DCS the pagefile is used with at least 6 to 12 GB, so this is obviously not a DCS specific problem, I don't understand why even when my RAM is not completely used my computer uses the pagefile, I will try to find out more :D Edited May 25, 2020 by FastNotFurious
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