How to fix memory scheduling for Kingston 16GB DDR4 2666?
Whenever I stepped into those eerie forest areas, my memory usage skyrocketed from 12.4 GB to 15.8 GB in under two minutes, which basically guaranteed some nasty micro-stutters. The low-frequency nature of the Kingston DDR4 2666 caused CPU resource exchange delays hitting 110-150 ns, making my frame times jump wildly between 16.6 ms and 45 ms. I first tried killing every single background app, but that only shaved off about 0.8 GB, which did absolutely nothing for the stutters—honestly, it was a waste of time. I eventually decided to manually set the virtual memory on my fastest NVMe SSD partition and locked the size at 32 GB, while tweaking the memory compression algorithm in the registry. Monitoring with Resource Monitor showed hard page faults dropping from 12 per second to under 1. It was a night and day difference in smoothness. I did hit a snag where the system had a weird boot delay after locking the page file size, but splitting the distribution across two physical drives fixed that. RAM temps stayed around 42-46℃ with motherboard voltage steady at 1.2V. After locking this in via System Configuration, my frame times finally settled at 12-15 ms.
