Why is Crucial DDR4 8GB causing tearing in Rainbow Six Siege?

In the middle of a gunfight, I'd get these horizontal tears across the screen, which is a death sentence in a tactical shooter. The bandwidth on this Crucial DDR4 2666MHz 8GB just can't keep up with high refresh rates, with frame times swinging wildly from 7ms to 22ms. I tried turning on V-Sync to kill the tearing, but it added about 30ms of input lag, making the mouse feel like it was moving through mud. I went into the BIOS, switched the memory mode from 'Auto' to 'Sync', and nuked every unnecessary startup app to free up about 1.2GB of RAM. RivaTuner showed the frame tim
Category:Hardware Peripherals Last Updated:2026-06-17 12:01:46