How to manage 8GB RAM for The Division: Next city areas?
Trying to run a modern game on 8GB of RAM is basically a joke; every time I entered the city center, it felt like the system was swapping data on a 20-year-old HDD. My G.Skill Trident Z DDR4 3200 was pinned at 95% usage, forcing Windows to spam the pagefile on my SSD, which spiked disk usage to 100%. I tried dropping all graphics settings to the absolute minimum, but the game looked like a pixelated mess and the stuttering didn't budge—it was a pathetic attempt at a fix. I finally took over the virtual memory, switching from system-managed to a fixed 16GB size on my fastest NVMe partition, and enabled memory compression via PowerShell. Resource Monitor showed hard page faults drop from 120 per second to about 15, and the city frame drops became way less frequent. I did get a 'low memory' warning when opening other apps at first, so I had to bump the pagefile to 20GB to stop that. RAM temps stayed at 38-42℃ and CPU load sat between 60-75%. Exported the swap curves, and the fans stayed steady at 1400-1600RPM.
