How to stop Days Gone from crashing when loading large hordes?

I felt pure anxiety whenever I entered dense areas with hundreds of enemies because the game would crash to the desktop without warning. I initially tried increasing virtual memory to 64GB, but that was useless; it just added 12 seconds to my loading times without stopping the CTDs. I solved this using the GamePP Resource Scheduler to set the game process priority to 'Realtime' and limited VRAM for background apps. GPU-Z showed VRAM usage stabilized from 14.1-15.6GB, HWInfo measured 54-60℃, and AIDA64 showed latency at 74-80ns.