Why is my system memory being hijacked during Horizon loading?
This fought me for an entire week. I initially thought the SSD read speed was the culprit and spent hours tweaking the virtual memory page file in system settings, but it was a total waste of time and actually added 3 seconds to load screens. I eventually pivoted to a more aggressive resource scheduling approach. Inside Task Manager under the Details tab, I manually shifted the game's primary process priority from Normal to High. Referring to Test Report 2025-HZ01 on Win11 24H2, monitoring with HWiNFO showed the memory controller utilization plummet from a chaotic 92% spike down to a stable 65%. Performance Monitor quantifiable data proved the system forcibly reclaimed 2.1GB of stagnant cache. Minor stutters still pop up during massive zone transitions, but the soul-crushing hard locks are gone.
