Why is Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 lagging after 3 hours?
The game starts out smooth as silk, but by hour three, the RAM usage creeps up from 8GB to 14.5GB. It's a classic memory leak that just kills the frame rate. My Corsair Vengeance LPX was getting choked by invalid handles, leaving only 1.2GB - 2.1GB of free space. I tried killing processes via Task Manager, but the leak just seemed to accelerate after restarting the game—that was a useless attempt. I ended up writing a simple PowerShell script to force-flush the standby memory every hour and disabled a bunch of useless Windows visual effects. In Resource Monitor, the memory curve changed from a steady climb to a periodic sawtooth pattern, and the stuttering stopped. The script caused a tiny 0.5s hitch at first, but I fixed that by changing the interval to every 120 minutes. RAM temps are 41℃ - 47℃ at 1.2V. Long-term idling tests show the memory no longer grows infinitely, and the controls feel responsive again.
