How to fix memory leaks in Horizon Online with Vengeance DDR5?
Cruising through the open world in the late game was a mess; every time I used fast travel, the entire screen would just freeze for two solid seconds. It was an incredibly jarring experience. My 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6400 was getting hammered, with physical memory usage hovering around 88-94%, forcing the system to lean on the sluggish page file. I tried using some third-party RAM cleaners to force a flush, but the memory just filled right back up and crashed the game—a total waste of time. I finally went into Advanced System Properties and manually set the virtual memory to a fixed range of 32GB-48GB on my fastest NVMe partition. Monitoring via Resource Monitor showed the commit charge expanding from 34GB to 42GB, and those instant hitches during camera pans completely vanished. I actually messed up the first time by leaving it on system-managed size, which caused stuttering as the page file expanded on the fly. Temps stayed around 48-54℃ for the RAM and 60-65℃ for the VRMs. Performance logs show the swap frequency dropped significantly, and the heat stayed stable at 48-54℃.
