No.113617
>>113616Windows 11 is unusable on just 16GB of RAM, you need 24GB minimum. Swap out one of your 8GB DDR5-4800 PC5-38400 SODIMM sticks with a 16GB. Look on youtube for how to upgrade RAM on your Acer Nitro model.
No.113618
>>113617I think I discovered the real culprit, though I will still likely install Linux or Windows 10 on this thing for once and for all before the end of the year at this rate-it's not like this has been the only thing that's gone wrong with Windows 11 throughout my ownership of this device.
There's apparently a "legitimate" anti-virus software out there that entrenches itself in the fine-fine print of other software applications and embeds itself into your system. It's called "Reason Endpoint Security" and I'll note that the way it made its way onto my computer is not only very much not reasonable (I'm usually very cautious about the installation step for any software so I imagine it had to have been tabbed and buried as well as something possibly could be to have gotten past me), it has also been unreasonably hard to uninstall.
The typical surface level method you would uninstall anything else with isn't working so I'm going to have to look further into it apparently.
No.113619
>>113618>I will still likely install Linux or Windows 10I don't think you're patient/tech-savvy enough to do all this bs
>>113161 and it won't save that much RAM. Also linux/proton still doesn't support many games so that's a no-go. Regardless of the ReasonLabs malware, I'd still upgrade the RAM and sell the old stick on ebay or FB. 90% RAM usage is the hard limit on Windows and starts swapping entirely to SSD (as virtual memory) at that point, but it'll already start swapping before that when you're nearing it (not all memory block allocations requested by applications can neatly fit into the small remaining slice).
No.113620
>>113619As juvenile as it is the games thing is really the main issue with Linux for now, any non-game software I'd erstwhile used on Windows has an open source competitor I can tolerate-or even prefer in some instances. Given the great majority of my computing is done on Linux these days I'd survive, though admittedly the whole "you need to know an esoteric command line statement or you'll be locked out of your computer and need to wipe it every 4 months" is very tiresome and I now have a backlog of 3 machines that are afflicted in this way.
LOLMost of what I'd prefer to play is thankfully supported by Proton with the exception of like, Starcraft 1-2 and some oddball big league stuff like that.
Also yo isn't a 16gb stick of ram like a gorillion dollars rn? I may have to wait on ts in either case heh
No.113622
>>113620Can see a 16GB DDR5-4800 SODIMM for about $180 pre-tax
https://pcpartpicker.com/products/memory/#ff=ddr5_sodimm&Z=16384001&sort=price&page=1Might be a bit cheaper on ebay, just be certain it's the correct one (1x16GB, SODIMM, DDR5, at least 4800MHz) and is returnable (best to do quick TestMem5 test).
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=DDR5-4800+sodimm+16GB&LH_BIN=1I'm not certain your current RAM speed is 4800 MHz, check Task Manager's Performance tab, there's a chance it may be 5200 or 5600 instead.
If it's higher, a lower stick would downclock both sticks to 4800 MHz. If so, I'd maybe spend the extra $40 for the 5600 MHz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Su2sObWTg (4800MHz vs 5200MHz game benchmarks)
RAM prices are not expected to drop until 2028 at the earliest by some predictions, but even that's not guaranteed. No one knows if/when the bubble will pop.
