Atomic Heart Memory Tuning
Speeding through the Soviet wasteland in Atomic Heart felt awful because of random micro-stutters that made me anxious. I first tried increasing the page file size to 64GB; while this stopped some crashes, the stutters still fluctuated between 15-30ms per RTSS. Using the GamePP Resource Scheduler, I found severe latency in the X79 controller. After a failed attempt to force higher memory frequency that caused a reboot, I switched to 2MB Large Page mode. RTSS monitoring showed frame times dropped from 18-45ms to 12-18ms, and AIDA64 confirmed memory temps were stable at 45-52℃.
