How to stop Control 2 from crashing on Crucial DDR4 2400?
Trying to run Control 2 on 2400MHz RAM is basically a joke; the game just crashes every time there's a major scene shift. The Crucial DDR4 2400MHz modules were throwing 0x1A memory management errors when handling massive amounts of physics objects, leading to instant desktop crashes. I tried using software to cap the game's memory usage at 6GB, but that was a total fail—it didn't stop the crashes and tanked my frame rate to 25fps. I was honestly fuming. I eventually went into the BIOS, bumped the DRAM voltage from 1.2V to 1.35V, and loosened the tRCD and tRP timings from 15-15 to 17-17. After four cycles of MemTest86, the error count dropped from 8 to zero. I did have a scare where the motherboard triggered overheat protection and rebooted, but adding some basic RAM heatsinks fixed that. Now the RAM sits at 40-46℃ and the VRM is at 52-58℃. I exported these conservative settings to a BIOS backup just to be safe, though the low speed is still a bottleneck.
