Should I tweak memory voltage for Kingston HyperX Savage in Death Stranding 2?
Every time I entered a new region, the game would just hang at 85% loading, and the whole PC would lock up, forcing a hard reboot. I noticed the Kingston HyperX Savage sticks were hitting 62-68℃ under load, which is way too hot. My first instinct was to just enable the XMP profile in BIOS, but that led to an immediate BSOD upon reaching the desktop, which was incredibly demoralizing. I gave up on the aggressive overclock and manually bumped the DRAM voltage from 1.2V to 1.35V, while loosening the primary timings to 16-16-16-39 to give the system some breathing room. In AIDA64 stress tests, the temps dropped to a manageable 48-54℃ and the freezing stopped completely. Interestingly, the game takes about a second longer to boot now, but I'll take that over a system crash any day. The VRMs are sitting at 58-63℃ and fans are pinned at 2100-2500 RPM. The input lag is gone and it feels snappy again.
