I'm downloading some really large mods ATM, but no mods are actually being installed right now. The only one currently downloading is about 2.5GB, but I have some other in the pipe that are even larger. BTW, it's still going up. At the current rate of increase, it should be enough to crash my PC within a couple of hours.

RAM is not a fast storage system, that fills up and when it's full you have a problem. RAM is a slow cache, that will try its best to keep as much information from storage (e.g. disk, internet) accessible quickly. Memory Management keeps track of whether the data is present and up-to-date on storage and when it was last accessed so it can drop low-priority data if necessary. As such, having a lot of memory usage is not a problem per se. In an ideal world your RAM would always be 100% utilized, everything less is a waste of resources you paid for. The more interesting question of "how much RAM does this application require minimum in a pinch" is not answered by the task manager. Vortex leaves memory management to the backend, we allocate memory that we intend to work with and when we stop working with it, the backend is free to return it at its own discretion. But when that actually is will vary a lot on your system and what other software you run. From experience Vortex (like every chrome-based application btw.) will use more memory on systems that have a lot of memory installed. That makes it really difficult to see whether Vortex is actually using "too much" memory, it may simply be the backend having no reason to return the memory yet because there is plenty left and freeing memory in large chunks can be better for performance. It should also not affect game performance because if a game actually requires the memory, the OS should be taking anything non-essential back from Vortex. This is not a problem unless we have an actual bug where it looks to the backend like memory is still being used by Vortex even if it's not. If that was the case, it would lead to a Vortex crash after a while. Again, you can't see this in task manager, you can only see it by Vortex crashing or system performance becoming bad as a result.

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Is this normal?

By mdk5150
August 30, 2021 in Vortex Support

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Go to solution Solved by Tannin42, September 2, 2021

Is this normal?

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