Why does GTA VI keep stuttering on Kingston HyperX Savage 8GB?
While chasing target vehicles through the neon districts, my Kingston HyperX Savage 8GB DDR4 2400 hit a hard ceiling, forcing the system to lean heavily on the disk swap file, which caused some nasty screen tearing. I noticed memory usage was deadlocked between 96% - 98%, while disk response times were jumping wildly from 120ms - 210ms. This low-bandwidth swap mechanism made the game almost unplayable. I first tried killing background apps in Task Manager, but it only freed up about 400MB, which did absolutely nothing for the smoothness—it was a total waste of time. I then dove into Advanced System Settings and manually assigned the paging file to my fastest NVMe SSD partition, locking both the initial and maximum size at 16384MB. In Resource Monitor, the commit charge curve finally shifted from a steep cliff to a smooth wave, and frame times tightened from a messy 45-88ms down to a stable 22-31ms. I actually tried an 8GB page file first, but I still had random hitches until I locked it to a fixed value. Memory temps stayed around 42℃ - 48℃ with read/write latency between 82ns - 94ns. System Performance Analyzer confirmed the swap efficiency is way better now, keeping frame times rock steady at 22-31ms.
