Alex Contero

31 minutes ago, Chappel said:

Can you post a screencap where your system isn't reserving 8 GB of memory?

27 minutes ago, Promidi said:

Can you right click on "my computer" and post a screenshot of the resultant screen.  I am interested in the "Installed Memory" (usable)

The installed memory room read 16GB but useable memory would have (8GB). I have it corrected now after removing and reinstalling the RAM but I was hoping to find a better solution than opening up my desktop every time I want to run something else. 

32 minutes ago, Chappel said:

So, your system is reserving 8GB of RAM whether or not you are running Cakewalk?

Yeah, even when it’s not running but it only happens the next time I restart my computer after running Cakewalk. 

The weirdest part is that it doesn’t occur when I first run Cakewalk. It’s the next time I boot up my PC that the RAM is cut in half but it only does it after I run cakewalk

11 minutes ago, Chappel said:

Could you post a screencap of that when you aren't running Cakewalk?

It isn’t running in that one, that’s after 2 or 3 restarts and some troubleshooting in msconfig.

5 hours ago, Promidi said:

I have never seen Cakewalk doing this or even showing this message.  Can you please post a clear screenshot where the message “Hardware Reserved” is displayed?

“Hardware Reserved” sounds more like it's a function of your actual PC rather than Cakewalk itself.

I also have 16 gig ram and on first load, Cakewalk only uses a couple of hundred K (As shown in Task Manager).  Of course, memory usage increases , the more plugins and I load into a project.

Are you sure this isn't you onboard graphics using a chuck of your RAM for it's graphic?  This would be set in the PC's BIOS.

You might also want to post a bit about your system and invronment in addition to the 16 gig.  

What version of Cakewalk?  What version of Windows. Is your WIndows fully patched?  Are you on a laptop or Desktop.

I’ve run every other program I regularly use but it only happens when I run cakewalk. It’s a desktop running a full license Windows 10 64bit. I’m running the free version of Sonar

Hey I’m pretty new to Cakewalk. My PC has 16GB of RAM but every time I run Cakewalk it cuts 8GB away and marks it as “Hardware Reserved” so I’m only getting access to half my RAM. I can fix it by removing and reinstalling the cards but it’s a massive pain when I want to use my PC for gaming. Is this normal or does it at least have a work-around? I’m thinking about upgrading to 32GB but I don’t want to waste the money just to have it eat up half of that too.