Managing memory pressure for Crucial DDR5 4800MHz 16GB?
This 16GB Crucial stick is a joke for Starfield; my usage was pinned at 95%, and it was honestly infuriating. Because I was out of RAM, the system was constantly swapping data to the disk, causing frame times to jump wildly between 15ms and 100ms. I tried using the built-in Windows memory cleaner, but it only freed up like 200MB—totally useless. I finally went into Advanced System Settings, manually set the page file to 32GB on my NVMe drive, and disabled every unnecessary background service. My latency analyzer showed disk response times plummeting from 40-120ms down to 12-25ms, and the stuttering finally calmed down. I did mess up the BCD boot entries when moving the page file, which caused a boot error, but I managed to rebuild it. RAM temps are 45°C - 52°C. I've backed up the system image now that it's stable. 16GB is just barely enough for this game, it's a struggle.
