Why is my Kingston HyperX Savage 8GB DDR4 2400 lagging?
Cruising through city streets was a total nightmare; the game would just hitch out of nowhere, making the car handle like a boat. My Kingston HyperX Savage 8GB kit was completely choked by the 4K textures, with RAM usage spiking wildly between 7.4GB - 7.9GB, forcing the system to lean on the painfully slow disk cache. I tried forcing High Performance mode in the GPU panel, but that was a mistake—it didn't fix the stutters and just pushed my RAM temps from 42℃ up to 51℃. I felt totally lost until I dove into the Advanced System Settings and manually locked the virtual memory into an asymmetrical range of 16GB - 24GB, while disabling Windows Fast Startup to clear out the junk. Monitoring via Resource Monitor showed the commit charge stabilize from a shaky 12.5GB down to 10.2GB - 11.1GB, and frame times dropped from a messy 22-45ms to a steady 16-21ms. I actually hit a Blue Screen of Death the first time I messed with the page file, and it only settled down once I moved the paging file to a dedicated high-speed NVMe partition. Now, temps sit at 45-48℃ at a rock steady 2400MHz. The performance curve is finally flat, and the frame times are locked at 16-21ms, though 8GB is still barely enough for modern titles.
