How to handle memory saturation on G.Skill Trident Z DDR4 3200?
Every time a massive combat encounter started, my FPS would dive from 60 to 20. It was honestly pathetic. 8GB of G.Skill Trident Z DDR4 3200 is just not enough for modern engines; usage would hit 98% instantly, triggering aggressive page filing. This created a massive bottleneck where the CPU was just idling while waiting for data—a total nightmare. I tried enabling High Performance mode in the BIOS, but that didn't fix the bandwidth wall and actually raised temps by 4°C, which felt like a waste of effort. I ended up using a memory management tool to kill every single unnecessary background process and locked the RAM frequency at 3200 MHz to prevent any downclocking. In CPU-Z stress tests, read speeds stabilized at 18-22 MB/s with clock fluctuations under 0.1 MHz. I did have an issue where my chat apps stopped working after the limits, but setting them to low priority solved it. Temps are now 45-51°C. Backed up the config and it's finally playable.
