How to handle 8GB RAM limits in Star Wars Outlaws?
Trying to run this on 8GB of DDR3 is basically a death wish for modern gaming. Every time I enter a large outpost, the system acts like it's running off a 20-year-old hard drive—it's honestly pathetic. The Kingston FURY 8GB hits 96% utilization instantly, forcing Windows to spam the page file on my SSD, which pins disk usage at 100%. I tried dropping every single setting to the absolute minimum, but the game looked like a pixelated mess and the lag was still there; I completely lost it after that. I finally stopped letting Windows manage the virtual memory and set a fixed 16GB page file on my fastest NVMe partition, then used PowerShell to enable memory compression. In Resource Monitor, the hard page faults dropped from 110 per second to about 12, which actually made the game playable. I did get a 'low memory' warning when opening other apps at first, but bumping the page file to 20GB killed that. Memory temps are around 38-42℃. I exported the optimized page file settings for backup, and the 38-42℃ temp is holding.
