Memory leak on new laptop, curious about options

Spike

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Aug 27, 2001
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I travel ~50% of my time so I've taken to carrying a gaming laptop to alleviate boredom at night. I recently retired my old Lenovo Y580 and picked up an MSI GS70 with the i7-6700. I've had it for a few days and so far it works very well, I can play fallout 4 at ultra which is spectacular.

Quick specs for reference:
i7-6700
16GB DDR4
128GB PCI2 M.2
500GB Samsung pro SSD
970M
Windows 10 home 64

I just replaced the stock 1TB HDD with a Samsung 850 pro 500 gb and started doing massive game downloads from uplay, steam, and origin. Walked away from the laptop, came back to a crashed system. Started up again, walked away, crashed again. This time started and watched my memory start at 10% and hit 99% before the system started crapping out again.

After some playing around what I noticed was that when I'm downloading a game via steam, uplay, or origin the memory usage has a constant creep up. As soon as I stop downloading, even if the services are still running, it stops wherever it ended. Right now I have all three running and it's sitting at 50%, where it ended after I finished the last game download. As soon as I start a new download, it creeps up again.

So, any ideas of what would be causing this? Anyway to prevent it? I've gamed for hours on the thing with no crashes, so it seems like the problem is just when downloading. Otherwise the laptop seems to work very well and I'm enjoying it.

Thanks!
 

Spike

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You didn't mention which browser..

?? The memory leaks where while downloading in Origin, Steam, and Uplay, no browser used at all.

I do have edge and firefox installed and use firefox most often, but that was the first thing I closed when checking out the memory leak.
 

boomerang

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Is it fully up to date on OS updates? I seem to remember the 1511 build had some changes that dealt with memory. I don't know the specifics. That's about all I have to offer. My $.02 worth.
 

VirtualLarry

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Either a memory leak in the wireless driver (I had one of those with Edimax drivers, until I got the most recent driver-only package), or maybe Win10 telemetry keeping track of everything you download?
 

Spike

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Aug 27, 2001
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Is it fully up to date on OS updates? I seem to remember the 1511 build had some changes that dealt with memory. I don't know the specifics. That's about all I have to offer. My $.02 worth.

Thats funny, you mention 1511 so I go and check for updates and what's available? 1511. Downloading and installing now.

UPDATE* I installed 1511 but the problem still exists. However, it does appear that the leak is slower than before. I could easily be mistaken, but it does not appear to be eating into the memory as fast.

Either a memory leak in the wireless driver (I had one of those with Edimax drivers, until I got the most recent driver-only package), or maybe Win10 telemetry keeping track of everything you download?

The wifi drivers are killer, so aetheros or whatever the brand is? I personally have only run into issues with them so far, though, funny enough, I clicked the "repair" button in windows and it fixed my wifi issues... when has that button ever repaired anything!?!?

I'm not familiar with win10 telemetry, I'll take a look.
 
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