Reducing memory pressure for Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 in WuWa
Trying to run a modern open-world game on DDR3 is like trying to drive a tractor on a highway; my RAM usage was pinned at 98%, and I honestly just laughed at the absurdity of it. With only 8GB of Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866, the page swapping was hitting 200 times per second, causing system latency to swing between 100-300ms. I tried closing every single background app, but I only gained maybe 3 FPS—it was a total joke, just pure physical capacity desperation. I eventually manually set the virtual memory to 16GB on a dedicated SSD partition and killed the Windows Indexing service. In Resource Monitor, the hard page faults dropped from 150/s to about 20/s, and the stuttering became way less frequent. The system did freeze for a second during the first boot after the change, but re-aligning the disk cluster size fixed it. RAM temps are 45-52℃ and CPU usage is around 85-92%. I exported the performance logs, and the memory pressure is finally under control.
