How to stop Metaphor: ReFantazio from crashing on 8GB RAM?
The sheer frustration of getting kicked back to the desktop right during a key plot point is indescribable. This 8GB Kingston kit is just too small for modern engines; physical memory usage was hovering between 7.2-7.8GB, forcing the system to lean heavily on the slow HDD swap file. I tried using some third-party RAM cleaners to free up space in real-time, but that was a disaster—it didn't stop the crashes and instead caused 2-3 second freezes every time it ran. I ended up manually setting the Windows virtual memory to a fixed 16GB allocated on my fastest SSD partition and killed every unnecessary background service. In Resource Monitor, the page file read/write frequency dropped from 120MB/s to about 15MB/s, and the crashes stopped entirely. I did notice the system boot time slowed down after fixing the size, which I only solved by moving the page file to a non-system drive. Memory temps sat between 42-48℃. Ran a few cycles of MemTest and got zero errors. The overflow issue is finally dead.
