JRPGfan said:
SvennoJ said:
It does it automatically after you install Steam, you have to turn auto start off and most people don't bother.
3.4GB? groan, I used to have XP running with less than 200 MB of RAM in use. Currently 10 GB in use which is mostly Firefox :/ (But got 32GB ram so no issue) |
I only have 16gb on this system... So with like this page open, and like 3 youtube video tabs,.... I'm at like 5,6gb used.
So even with you using 10 GB, you still have more to "spend" than I do.
I just made it a habit to turn everything unnecessary off.
I feel exactly the same way (its too big, uses too much ram).
Heck I remember there were competitions about "slim" versions of windows 98/xp,
and people could get windows to take up less than 300mb (the install size on your HDD).
Now windows 11 is like ~50GB on your SSD.
Is windows 50-100 times better than it used to be?
I have another system with a 7800xt, and I'm tempted to install Mint/CachyOS/SteamOS sometimes.... but never seem to get around to it.
I heard it is so much less system demanding that even with the overhead of using translation/emulation software to run app's (like steam's proton),
it can sometimes beat windows in games performance (esp. on amd gpu systems). I think the change just scares me too much, windows "works". |
Actually, I only have 5-6 GB left before Windows starts page swapping, which is what slows everything down. Stupid OS starts doing that when half the physical RAM has been used. Actually I already have 1.1 GB paged, since Windows also has 10GB cached.
But as long as more than half is still available (cached pool doesn't count) it only pages out unused stuff. (I see no hard faults reported in the resource monitor)
When I was on XP my laptop only had 1 GB of RAM, so it was out necessity to get it running as lean as possible. Still kinda ridiculous how much memory FireFox uses.
Anyway I only start Steam nowadays when my kid wants to buy something for his account. I did reconfigure Steam to use less RAM when I was playing FS2020 and needed all the memory possible. Can't turn it off while playing FS2020 even though all Steam hosts is the launcher doh.
