How to stop ADATA ValueRAM DDR3 from crashing in Metro?
Trying to run the Enhanced Edition on these ancient DDR3 sticks was a joke; the game would just crash every twenty minutes. System logs were flooded with memory management errors, meaning the chips just couldn't hold a stable voltage at 1600 MHz. I tried enabling 'Memory Enhancement' in the BIOS, but that was a disaster—crashes went from once an hour to once every ten minutes. I was honestly about to give up. I ended up downclocking the RAM to 1333 MHz and manually bumping the voltage from 1.5V to 1.55V, while loosening the tRAS timings. After six hours of Prime95 stress testing with zero errors, the game finally stopped crashing. I lost about 15% of my memory bandwidth, but in-game FPS only dropped by about 3 frames. Stability is way more important than a few numbers. RAM is sitting at 40-45℃ and VRMs are at 55-62℃. Backed up the stable BIOS profile so I don't have to do this again.
