Fixing Crucial DDR4 2400MHz 8GB memory bottlenecks in Dune Awakening
It's honestly ridiculous—trying to run a 2026 open-world game on a single 8GB stick of Crucial DDR4 is basically a survival challenge. Whenever a sandstorm hits, memory usage pins at 7.8GB and the system starts frantically swapping data to the disk, causing the FPS to dive from 60 to 15. It's enough to make you want to throw your keyboard. I tried lowering every single graphics setting, but the memory usage stayed high because the base map data is just too huge for 8GB. I went for a nuclear option: I manually set the Windows page file to a fixed 16GB and disabled memory compression to save the CPU from the extra overhead. Resource Monitor showed page swaps dropping from 150 per second to 40. It's still a bit glitchy, but at least it doesn't hard-lock anymore. Boot times slowed down by about 2 seconds, but I can live with that. Memory temps are 40-45℃ and disk load is at 60-80%. It's a miracle it even runs.
