Why does Metaphor: ReFantazio stutter during scene loads?
Whenever I entered the bustling city areas, the gameplay would suddenly hitch, which was incredibly frustrating. My G.Skill Trident Z RGB DDR4 3600 has great rated specs, but the memory controller response latency was swinging wildly between 72-88ms during heavy asset streaming. I first tried bumping my virtual memory up to 32GB, but that was a total waste of time; it didn't fix the stutters and actually made the overall system response feel a second slower. I eventually dove into the BIOS and tightened the primary timings from 18-22-22-42 down to 16-19-19-38, while nudging the DRAM voltage from 1.35V to 1.38V. Checking with AIDA64, the memory latency dropped from 82ns to a steady 64-68ns, and the smoothness improved drastically. I did hit a wall early on where aggressive timings caused two BSODs, but loosening the tRAS to 40 fixed the stability. Temps stayed between 42-48℃. After three stress test passes, my 1% lows jumped by 15%, with frame times locking in at 5.1-6.4ms. It's finally playable without those annoying micro-stutters.
