How to fix bandwidth choking on Crucial DDR5 in Days Gone?
Riding through the wasteland should be a vibe, but I kept getting these weird frame skips that totally killed the immersion. Looking at the logs, my Crucial DDR5 4800MHz 16GB was struggling with open-world textures, with memory utilization swinging wildly between 88-94%. My first instinct was to crank the page file up to 32GB, but that actually made the system feel sluggish and unresponsive—I was honestly so frustrated. I went back to the BIOS, hard-locked the frequency at 4800MHz, and set the virtual memory to a fixed range between 16GB-24GB. Using RTSS, I saw the frame time variance drop from a messy 16-45ms to a tight 13-18ms. I did run into some disk I/O blocking early on, but moving the page file to a dedicated NVMe drive fixed that instantly. Temps are holding at 45-52℃. Texture pop-ins are gone, and the memory scheduling is finally behaving.
