How to fix long memory training times in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2?
Seeing the boot time drop from 35 seconds to 10 seconds was an absolute rush; the efficiency gain is night and day. When I first enabled the 6000MHz profile, the system would blue screen ten minutes into the game. The memory controller was shaking at 1.2V, which taught me not to trust presets blindly. I manually pushed the SoC voltage to 1.25V and tightened the timings from 36-36-36 to 32-38-32. AIDA64 showed a read/write speed increase of about 5.1 GB/s. I did run into some minor checksum errors early on, but bumping the RAM voltage to 1.4V killed them off. Temps are now sitting at 52°C to 58°C, and the gameplay is rock steady with zero micro-stutters. Squeezing every bit of potential out of this hardware was a struggle, but the FPS gain is real. The system response is on another level now. I switched the memory mode via the BIOS.
