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10 years ago
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Computer is back up and running! Once I get a day or two off I'll be working on some artwork again! I'd like to thank Mister 
tachikusanagi for his help in getting my computer running properly... it was a hibernation issue with Windows 8 we found out that was draining all my ram, which then ate up all my disk space, which caused the freezing while using graphics intensive programs. So we'll be back in business bit by bit this week and serious werk starting next week.
Also dont forget, prices are going down soon and my summer special is also going to be starting... keep an eye out!
tachikusanagi for his help in getting my computer running properly... it was a hibernation issue with Windows 8 we found out that was draining all my ram, which then ate up all my disk space, which caused the freezing while using graphics intensive programs. So we'll be back in business bit by bit this week and serious werk starting next week.Also dont forget, prices are going down soon and my summer special is also going to be starting... keep an eye out!
The problem here was that our fluffy vixen friend shut off the PC via the "Shut Down" dialog as per usual, and the "up time" shown inside the Task Manager showed about 14 DAYS of up time. This is because when you turn it off into the low-power state, Windows won't recognise that as a new session.
As per usual, the longer a PC is "running" (or being used with this so called hibernate-mode), the more unstable it gets. In the end, the RAM was bloated up so hard that 16 GB was being used by 97%, forcing Windows and programs to page files to the HDD, causing massive slow-downs.
Easy fix: Do a "Restart" every once in a while. A "Restart" tells Windows to do a proper flush of the RAM and boot a fresh boot. Resets the session back to zero. After the reboot, our vixen's PC was at 15% RAM usage. You can also go to the "Power Options" and turn off this "Fast Boot" option. Starting from shut-off state will take longer, but your PC is always properly rebooted.
So to check for this,
Then we turned to my CPU performance, and he had me send him a screenshot of that specifically so he can see my CPU runtime. When I saw it I immediately thought it wasnt normal as well and told him that it had been running for 13 days which cant be right, then sent him the screenshot.
At that point he told me that basically what was going on was the default setting for Windows 8 under Power settings, is this useless feature called "enable quick reboot" or something like that. It consumes a little more power to as it hibernates to hold onto some startup info so it doesnt have to re-gather that info in order to start up... saving you a precious... maybe 10 seconds?
Anyway, the first thing we did to remedy the problem was Restart the computer, since a restart actually does turn the computer off in windows 8, and then we went into power options and disabled the fast boot. My CPU runtime was reset and my computer was working as normal again.