Why does Death Stranding 2 keep hitting memory overflows and crashing during complex terrain loads on my Crucial DDR4 2400 8GB kit?

Whenever I'm scaling those steep mountains, the game just nukes itself back to the desktop without any warning. This happens constantly once memory usage hits that 7.8GB ceiling. Let's be real, 8GB of Crucial DDR4 2400 is barely enough for a web browser these days, let alone a modern open world, which forces the system into a nightmare of inefficient page swapping. I started by killing every single background app, but even after freeing up about 500MB, I was still crashing every ten minutes, which was honestly baffling. I eventually dove into the Advanced System Settings and manually locked the virtual memory to a fixed 24GB, while simultaneously disabling Windows Memory Compression. Checking Resource Monitor, the hard faults plummeted from 18-25 per second down to a rock steady 1-3 per second. I did hit a snag at first—disk fragmentation made the initial load times jump by about 5 seconds, but a full drive optimization cleared that right up. Temps stayed between 38-44℃. After three hours of grueling field tests, the crashes are gone and frame times are sitting pretty between 5.1-6.4ms. Still, 8GB is a massive bottleneck for this title.