Is the ASRock Z370M Pro4 causing stutters in Silent Hill 2?
Walking through the fog, the game would hitch every few seconds, and it was honestly making me anxious. Since the ASRock Z370M Pro4 is an older platform, it struggles with modern high-concurrency instructions, leading to I/O wait times of 25-38ms. I tried tanking the graphics settings to low, but the game looked like a pixelated mess and I only gained about 10 FPS—totally not worth the trade-off. I ended up wiping the old drivers and installing the latest chipset patches, then manually set my virtual memory page file to 32GB. Checking RTSS, the frame times stopped jumping between 22-45ms and settled into a smooth 16-20ms range. I hit a snag where the disk started thrashing after the change, but moving the page file to my NVMe SSD fixed it. My CPU is running hot at 72-78℃, but the input lag is gone and it feels snappy again.
