Can virtual memory fix Dying Light 2 stutters on X99M-PLUS D4?
Trying to run a memory-hungry open world on an X99 platform with 4K textures is basically a joke; every time I jump across a roof, the system starts swapping like crazy. My RAM usage was pinned at 90-95%, causing frame times to swing violently between 20ms and 130ms. It was a fragmented, choppy mess. I tried killing every background app, but even with just a browser open, the memory was totally choked—it felt like a losing battle. I eventually manually set the virtual memory to 64GB, forced it onto a fast NVMe partition, and set the game's process priority to 'High' in Task Manager. While the page file read/write activity is still high in the performance monitor, those second-long freezes have finally stopped. One downside: my boot time slowed down by about 6 seconds until I disabled 'Fast Startup' in Windows. RAM is running at 44-50℃ and the SSD is hitting 56-62℃. I exported the swap curves to verify the fix, and fans are steady at 1400-1600 RPM. It's still a struggle, but it's playable.
