Fixing memory scheduling hitches in Hitman 3 on DDR5 96GB
Whenever I infiltrated the Chongqing map, the screen would just freeze for a split second. In a game about precision stealth, that kind of stutter is a total dealbreaker. Even with 96GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000MHz, the default Windows paging file was messing up the address mapping, leaving my actual throughput swinging between 35-42GB. I wasted time killing every background process I could find, but RAM usage only dropped by 2GB and the freezes stayed. I finally went into Advanced System Properties and switched the virtual memory from 'auto' to a manual 16GB fixed page file on my NVMe drive. Resource Monitor showed the commit charge curve finally flattened out, and load times dropped from 18 seconds to 7. I did have a slow boot issue at first, but moving the page file off the system drive fixed it. RAM temps are now 46-52℃ and disk load is 15-22%. The input lag is gone, and the game finally feels responsive.
