How to handle memory bottlenecks on Kingston HyperX 8GB in Minecraft RTX?
It's honestly ridiculous that I'm trying to run RTX ray tracing on 8GB of DDR3 in 2026; it's basically a stress test for the hardware's survival. My logs showed RAM usage hitting 7.8GB in complex scenes, forcing the system to swap data to the drive, which spiked latency from 15ms to a disgusting 220ms. I tried enabling every 'memory boost' option in the BIOS, but the old RAM chips just couldn't handle it and the system wouldn't even POST. I ended up manually setting a fixed 24GB page file on my NVMe SSD and nuking Windows Defender's real-time scanning to save every megabyte possible. In MemTest, the system is still struggling, but it stopped crashing mid-game and my minimums went from 10 FPS to about 25 FPS. I accidentally put the page file on my HDD at first, which made loading times three times longer—huge mistake. RAM temps are 38-45℃. It's a band-aid fix, and the only real solution is buying more RAM, but this keeps it from crashing.
