I have just downloaded wallpaper engine from steam and I have set the live wallpaper to highest quality and to run at 60 fps with 8x mmxa and according to task manager its using 22% of my 16gb ram?
Is this normal and will it stop using the ram as soon as its not onscreen anymore when I start gaming?
my Rig is Alienware ALX 16gb standard Alienware ram 1600hz I-7 3930k overclocked to 3.8 ghz (water cooled) 2x GTX 780 sli with g-synch standard Alienware 1200w power source running an ASUS rog swift 27" 1440p 144ghz monitor. And I ALWAYS run at maximum resolution! and refresh rate.
41 Answer
Maybe because, I've used live wallpapers in the past and every time a client opened up the wallpaper paused so it can reduce my ram and CPU usage. But having anything running in the background will slow your PC down a bit. I would like to say, that it uses a fare bit of memory though but I think your PC performance wont have a major effect with live wallpapers running.
