Why does ADATA Valueram DDR5 4800 cause drops in God of War Ragnarok?
Right in the middle of these epic Norse vistas, the game would just hitch, and it completely broke the immersion. My ADATA 4800 MHz bandwidth was showing only 30 GB/s in AIDA64, which is a dead giveaway that I had the sticks in single-channel mode. The CPU was basically choking while trying to load massive environmental assets. I tried enabling the 'High Performance' power plan in Windows, but that's a software fix for a hardware problem; the drops didn't stop. I shut it down and moved the sticks to slots 2 and 4, then verified Dual Channel was active in the BIOS. Bandwidth immediately shot up to 60-65 GB/s, and the transitions became seamless. I actually had a moment of panic when one stick wasn't detected after the swap, but an eraser on the gold fingers solved it. Memory temps are holding at 42-48℃. The benchmarks prove the data rate is finally where it needs to be, and the controls feel snappy again.
