Is it normal for gw2 to be using 10,000 MB of RAM?

[Terek.8923]

I have been playing since launch but i never really used task manager to check how much resources the game was using till now. I just did.  Its using 10,000 MB of ram.

I have only 16 GB of ram and with my web browser open and listening to Spotify, along with all the other background processes almost 97% of my ram is being used.

When i read the requirements for the game just now it says the game should be using only 4 GB of ram. Why is mine so much higher?

Edited May 21, 2021 by Terek.8923

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

I only have 8GB RAM, and I only use about 75-80% of RAM with other applications open.

 

So, just checked.  GW2 using the same amount as Firefox running with 9 instances.  Actually, a bit less.   1,302 MB  (About 20% of memory.)

 

Thus, something is amiss with yours, I'd guess. 

[Infusion.7149]

Don't conflate usage with allocation.

 

It's perfectly capable of running with 8GB RAM but with more swapping.

 

In fact, the 64 bit client was made to address the 4GB RAM+VRAM issue: 32-bit apps crash to desktop when out of memory rather than using swap (pagefile)

Edited May 21, 2021 by Infusion.7149

[Terek.8923]

its ok i figured it out. it was d912pxy. i had done the uninstall for d912pxy but it had not uninstalled properly but after i manually removed the DLL's for d912pxy the usage is now down to 3 GB like it should be

[Infusion.7149]

It's probably a memory leak in the DLL