How to fix memory bandwidth issues in Valorant on ASRock Z370M Pro4?
Whenever I flicked my view quickly, the frame rate would jump by 20 FPS without warning, and the choppiness made me really uneasy. I ran a hardware check and realized that while the RAM was detected, it was running in Single Channel mode, cutting my bandwidth in half and stalling the rendering pipeline. I tried adjusting process priority in Windows, but that did absolutely nothing for a bandwidth bottleneck—a total waste of time. I shut everything down, reseated the sticks into slots 2 and 4, and manually enabled Dual Channel in the BIOS. My read speeds jumped from 20GB/s to 38GB/s, and frame times stabilized from 15-30ms down to 7-12ms. I actually had a boot failure after the first reseat until I cleaned the gold contacts with an eraser. Now the CPU is at 62-68℃, VRMs are 50-56℃, and AIDA64 confirms the bandwidth is fully unlocked with RAM temps at 42-47℃.
