Load optimization for MSI A520M-A PRO in BioShock 4
When the screen fills up with particle effects, the limited RAM capacity becomes a massive bottleneck, and any excitement for the game just dies when the stuttering hits. RAM usage was pinned at 14.2-15.6GB, forcing the system to rely on the sluggish disk swap file. I tried killing every background app, but I only gained 400MB, which was useless. I went into system settings and forced the virtual memory to a fixed 20GB value and locked the RAM frequency to 3200MHz in the BIOS. Initially, this caused some weird frame drops, but once I disabled the Windows Indexing service, the fluctuations settled between 75-85 FPS. The RAM modules were running at 44℃ - 50℃, and I could hear some slight coil whine from the capacitors. Checking the commit charge curve in Resource Monitor, the memory pressure finally shifted, and temps stayed at 44℃ - 50℃.
