Dealing with memory leaks in Days Gone on 16GB RAM?
This game eats RAM like a black hole. I'd be riding along and the road would suddenly turn pitch black before popping back in. My Kingston 16GB DDR4 2666 was pinned between 14.8-15.5GB, and the second it hit the ceiling, the FPS tanked. I tried dropping the settings to Medium, but the game looked like a pixelated mess—absolute torture for the eyes. Instead, I went into system settings and locked the virtual memory (page file) at 32GB and dialed the texture quality from Ultra down to High. Using Resource Monitor, I saw memory usage stabilize between 12.1-13.2GB, and the texture flickering vanished. Weirdly, my boot time slowed down by 3 seconds after the change until I disabled Fast Startup in Windows. CPU temps stayed around 62-68℃ with fans at 1300 RPM. I exported the memory curves to verify, and fan speeds stayed steady at 1300-1400RPM. It's a band-aid fix, but it works.
