In rat-heavy scenes in A Plague Tale: Requiem, my G.Skill Trident Z DDR4 3200 8GB is maxed out and lagging. Can memory compression actually fix this?

When millions of rats swarm the screen, my frame rate plummeted from 45 FPS to a pathetic 12 FPS. The stutter was physically painful. I checked Task Manager and saw my G.Skill Trident Z DDR4 3200 8GB was pegged at over 98% usage, forcing the system into constant disk paging. I tried lowering all texture settings to minimum, but while that saved 1GB of RAM, the game looked like a pixelated mess from the 90s. I couldn't live with that. Instead, I went into advanced system settings, nuked every unnecessary startup item, and enabled Windows Memory Compression. Monitoring via RTSS, the frame time spikes dropped from a wild 80-120ms down to a stable 22-30ms. I noticed CPU usage climbed by about 5% after enabling compression, but switching my power plan to 'High Performance' balanced it out. Memory temps are sitting at 40-46℃. Comparing the frame time graphs, the delivery is finally consistent at 22-30ms, though 8GB is honestly a struggle for any modern AAA title.