How to deal with memory latency spikes on Colorful B760M Frozen in FF7 Rebirth?
Sprinting through the streets of Midgar was a mess, with frames randomly diving from 120 down to 75, which totally ruined the game feel. While the FROZEN board has decent compatibility, the default timings were hitting 82-90ns of latency when handling heavy game data. I tried enabling Game Mode in the OS, which lowered CPU usage slightly, but the latency numbers stayed high, making me realize surface-level fixes weren't going to cut it. I went into the BIOS and tightened the primary timings from 16-20-20-40 down to 14-18-18-36 and bumped the RAM voltage from 1.30V to 1.38V. In AIDA64, latency plummeted from 85ns to 64-69ns, and the smoothness is night and day. I tried 14-14-14 at first and got an immediate BSOD, so I had to loosen tRAS to 38 to get it stable. RAM temps are 44-50℃ and VRM is 58-63℃. Frame times are now steady at 5.1-6.4ms, which feels great.
