Fixing ADATA ValueRAM 8GB lag in Splinter Cell Remake
While sneaking through enemy camps, the game would just hitch for about 200 ms. In a stealth game, that kind of lag is a death sentence. The DDR3 architecture of the ADATA ValueRAM 8GB just can't handle the Remake's massive texture packs, with bus saturation hitting 94-97%. I tried enabling memory compression in Windows, but that just shifted the load to the CPU and cost me 4 FPS. It was a stressful trade-off that didn't really help. I eventually pushed the RAM to its absolute limit of 1600 MHz in the BIOS and expanded the system page file to 24GB. Using a latency tool, I saw read latency drop from 115 ns to around 98-102 ns, and those transition hitches basically vanished. I had some slight screen flickering at first, but a small 0.05V voltage bump fixed it. Temps are sitting at 48-54℃. The frame time distribution graph looks way healthier now. Parameters verified.
