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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!
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!