Does Kingston DDR4 2666 need virtual memory tweaks for Rift Apart?
Every time I jumped between dimensions, the screen would just hang for a split second. That bandwidth-starved stuttering was making me seriously anxious. With the Kingston 2666 MHz sticks, response times were spiking from 12ms to 45ms during massive texture swaps, causing a total I/O jam. My first instinct was to drop the graphics settings, but the game looked like a pixelated mess, which was a total dealbreaker. Instead, I went into system settings and manually split the virtual memory across two high-speed SSD partitions, then tightened the primary memory timings in the BIOS from 19-19-19-43 to 18-18-18-40. Looking at the RTSS graph, the frame time finally stabilized at 11-15ms, and that jittery feeling vanished. I did run into a brief boot delay after the timing change, which I only solved by bumping the memory voltage to 1.25V. Memory temps stayed between 42-48℃ at 2666 MHz. The drops are gone, and the input lag is finally nonexistent; it feels way more responsive now.
