Is 8GB Crucial DDR4 2666 enough for Battlefield 2042's 128-player maps?
Every time I hit a high-density combat zone, the game would just vanish and dump me back to the desktop—it was incredibly frustrating. 8GB of Crucial DDR4 2666 is barely enough for modern titles; my usage was pegged at 7.5-7.9GB, constantly triggering the system's memory protection. I tried killing every single background process, but that only freed up about 400MB, which did nothing to stop the crashes during explosions. I eventually went into Advanced System Properties and switched virtual memory from 'auto' to manual, carving out a fixed 16GB to 32GB page file on my NVMe SSD. Resource Monitor showed the commit charge finally had breathing room, and the crashes dropped from three per hour to zero. I made the mistake of putting the page file on an HDD first, which added 20 seconds to load times, but moving it to the SSD fixed that. Memory temps stayed at 36-42℃ with disk load at 15-28%. Event Viewer confirms the memory access violations are gone, and the input finally feels snappy.
