Solving memory bottlenecks for ASRock H310CM-ITX/ac in Mass Effect
This motherboard is barely hanging on with modern titles; during map loads, the frame rate would tank to 15 FPS, which was honestly infuriating. The ASRock H310CM-ITX/ac has a very low memory frequency ceiling, creating severe I/O blocking during asynchronous asset loading. I tried killing every single background app, but memory usage still hovered at 95%—that kind of 'optimization' was a complete joke. I eventually manually moved the virtual memory to my fastest NVMe SSD and locked the pagefile size at 32GB, while disabling the system's Superfetch/SysMain indexer. In comparison tests, minimums rose from 15 FPS to 28 FPS—still not great, but it stopped the frequent freezing. I did hit two disk write errors that caused crashes right after the change, but reformatting the pagefile fixed it. Board temps stayed between 45-52°C. After exporting the memory management parameters, temps remained at 45-52°C.
