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What stat are you looking at? committed memory? I mentioned that is fairly high for the game, but it's not actually memory that's allocated and in use, it's a sort of pre-allocation where something says "I think i'm going to want to use this, reserve it for me".  If you have virtual memory then this will never really impact actual memory usage.  Be better if it didn't do it, but it's not really much of an issue in my opinion.  More useful is to look at the private working set size and that's what I was referencing in my numbers.

As a note, for #4:

4. fresh reboot + running strive + looking at portrait folder in game

Now that I re-read the other numbers, it actually seems your memory usage is basically in-line with my own. At least I assume #2 is an add-on to #1, and thus it's using around 300-400mb. Not sure why you're looking at system wide values though, much simpler to just look at Strive.exe. Working set numbers are the more useful ones, they show up in Physical Memory if you do properties on Strive.exe in process explorer.

If you want to reduce memory for loading of the portraits folder, that's why I added the delayed loading mod.