[makotech222]

I have a weird problem on two of my computers. Running an installer for a game will cause the ram usage to shoot up to 99%. It does this on both Vista and 77, and ive had it for years and can never figure it out. The ram wont be restored until after i to a system restart. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

Install shield, or MSI?

 

[makotech222]

usually install shield. i think msi does it too sometimes. not sure

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

you might wanna check your memory, i had recurring memory leaks in dvd rippers, setup files, archives... when my DDR went bad.

 

[makotech222]

but its the same thing in both of my computers, with different ram.

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

Well.. you never know :\

 

[Smooth Criminal]

maybe an installer problem....

 

[Ahielia]

It's only the one installer that does this?

 

[makotech222]

no whenever i install a game. 40% of the time it doesnt though, but a game installer that does it, always does it.

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

game installers have to unpack ALOT of data, the decompression library might be massive.

 

[makotech222]

but take 4 gb of ram? and wont give it back until i restart?

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

Then like i said, you have some screwed up memory there mate.

 

[makotech222]

nope found the problem. Its poweriso and mounting iso thats taking up all the ram, some kind of bug or something. Using daemon now

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

lulz
must fail at caching the mount.

 

[Ahielia]

Can't say I've had PowerISO fail like that when it was installed on my computer...

Good thing you figured it out at least.

 

[makotech222]

yeah been bugging me since i had to switch to poweriso when windows 7 came out, cause daemon didnt work at first.