Why does Like a Dragon Ishin crash on G.Skill 8GB DDR4 3200?
Whenever I'm sprinting through the streets, the game just freezes for a full second out of nowhere, and the performance gap is honestly baffling. My G.Skill Trident Z DDR4 3200 8GB is just too small for these next-gen textures; I watched my RAM usage spike to 96% - 98% in HWiNFO, forcing the system to dump data into the slow page file on my drive. I tried killing every single background app, but even in a stripped-down environment, the usage stayed at the breaking point, making basic cleanup feel totally pointless. I ended up manually setting the virtual memory to 32GB and forced it onto my fastest NVMe partition, then bumped the game process priority to 'Realtime' in Task Manager. Looking at the performance monitor, the page file read/write frequency is still pretty high, but at least the screen stops freezing. I actually hit two nasty disk I/O conflicts during the setup, which only went away after I disabled Windows Fast Startup. RAM temps sat between 42 - 46℃ while the SSD stayed around 52 - 58℃. After checking the resource allocation curves, the frame times finally leveled out to a steady 5.1 - 6.4ms.
