Is my ASRock A320M-HDV R4.0 unstable in Remnant 2?
Right in the middle of high-intensity combat, the game would just vanish and dump me back to the desktop. I noticed the memory controller was hitting abnormal peaks with voltage swings between 0.05V and 0.12V. I was honestly panicking, thinking I'd fried my RAM, and spent hours swapping different sticks of memory only for the crashes to continue—a total waste of time. I finally went into the BIOS and switched memory timings from Auto to Manual, locking the primary timings at 16-18-18-36 and bumping the voltage from 1.2V to 1.35V. Monitoring showed memory latency drop from 82-95ns to a tight 74-78ns, and my FPS stabilized from a jumpy 38-55 range to a solid 48-52 FPS. My first instinct was to lower the frequency, but that just tanked my performance; it wasn't until I added the voltage compensation and tweaked tRFC that the system actually stopped crashing. The chipset limits me from going any higher, but it's rock steady now. System logs show the illegal instruction errors are gone, and the input lag feels way more responsive.
