Why is Ark 2 choking on KingBank Yin Jue 8GB DDR4 3600?
Whenever I hit those dense jungle zones, my KingBank Yin Jue 8GB DDR4 3600 just hits a wall. The physical memory fills up instantly, forcing the system to lean on the slow HDD swap file, which makes the camera panning feel glitchy as hell. I noticed my RAM usage was pinned at 96% - 98% in Resource Monitor, even with every single background app killed, which was honestly baffling. I tried lowering the shadow quality first, but that only bumped me up by about 3 FPS while the stuttering stayed exactly the same—a total waste of time. I eventually dove into the Advanced System Settings and manually set the virtual memory initial size to 8192MB and the maximum to 16384MB. In Resource Monitor, the commit charge jumped from 7.5GB to 15.2GB, and those violent frame drops during quick pans finally chilled out. I actually messed up at first by putting the page file on a mechanical drive, which doubled my load times, but moving it to the SSD fixed everything. Now, my RAM temps sit between 39–43–℃ and CPU load hovers around 71% - 82% on Win11 24H2. Performance logs show the swap frequency dropped significantly, though 8GB is still a tight squeeze for this game.
