How to handle memory shortages in BioShock 4?
The memory requirements for this game are insane; trying to run it on 8GB is basically self-torture. I was seeing drops to 12 FPS during scene loads, and I honestly wanted to throw my PC out the window. The Kingbank Yin Jue 8GB sticks were completely maxed out, forcing the system into a constant loop of page filing that caused massive I/O blocking. I tried closing every single background app, but memory usage stayed at 96%—a joke of an optimization. I finally manually set the virtual memory on my fastest NVMe drive, locked it at 32GB, and disabled the Windows Superfetch/Indexing service. My minimums climbed from 12 FPS to 25 FPS; it's still not great, but at least it stops freezing. I had two disk write errors that crashed the game until I reformatted the page file. Memory temps are 38-44℃, and frame times are now 5.1-6.4ms.
