How to fix frame drops in Resident Evil Village on Corsair LPX?
When hitting the village center square, I noticed my memory controller was hitting high latency spikes between 82-95ns at 3600MHz, causing a nasty 12ms hitch every time I turned the camera. I first tried toggling Game Mode in Windows, which helped responsiveness slightly, but my memory usage was still swinging wildly between 14.2-16.8GB, which was honestly baffling. I ended up diving into the BIOS, bumping the DRAM voltage from 1.35V to 1.38V and loosening the tRFC timing from 560 to 600. Checking HWiNFO, the latency immediately settled into a tight 74-78ns range, and my 1% lows jumped from 48 FPS back up to 62 FPS. I actually pushed it to 1.40V at first, but the sticks hit 62℃, so I had to set a custom fan curve to kick in at 55℃ to keep them cool. With the CPU sitting at 65-72℃ and VRMs at 58-64℃, OCCT confirmed no more memory swap crashes, with frame times locking in at 5.1-6.4ms. It's a bit of a hassle to maintain, but it works.
