Why is Crucial DDR5 4800 16GB lagging in Mass Effect?
Every time I jump between planets, the screen hitches for about 0.5 seconds, which completely kills the immersion. The default timings on this Crucial DDR5 4800 16GB kit are way too conservative, leaving my latency bouncing between 92-105ns and messing with the engine's resource scheduling. I tried adding more virtual memory at first, but that did absolutely nothing for the underlying response lag, which honestly made me pretty anxious. I eventually went into the BIOS, enabled the XMP profile, and manually set the SoC voltage to 1.15V to keep the memory controller from tripping. Monitoring with RTSS, my frame time spikes of 18-35ms tightened up to a smooth 12-16ms, and the transition stutters vanished. I did have some random reboots while idling right after enabling XMP, but adding another 0.05V to the memory voltage finally locked it down. Memory temps are sitting at 45-51℃, while the motherboard VRMs hit 58-63℃. Performance tools confirm the instruction execution time is way lower, and the input lag is finally gone.
