Fixing frequency drops in Unknown 9 on Crucial DDR4 16GB?
Right as I'm sneaking through a corridor, the screen just hitches for a split second. In a game that relies on immersion, that kind of instability is incredibly jarring. The Crucial DDR4 3200MHz 16GB modules were triggering the motherboard's power-saving mode during low-load scenes, causing the frequency to bounce between 2133MHz and 3200MHz, which added a 12-18ms sync delay. I tried enabling V-Sync first, but that pushed my input lag over 50ms and made the controls feel like I was playing underwater—I immediately backed off that. I went into the BIOS, nuked the memory power-saving options, and forced the frequency to a hard 3200MHz while bumping the voltage to 1.35V. In RivaTuner, the frame time graph went from a wavy mess to a flat line, and the stutters vanished. My idle power draw went up by about 10W, but for the sake of the experience, I don't care. RAM temps stayed at 42-48℃ and the CPU was around 60-66℃. Used CPU-Z to verify there were zero frequency fluctuations.
