How to fix Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart RAM spikes on 8GB?
The game would literally freeze for about 0.8 seconds during dimension shifts, which is an absolute disaster in a fast-paced fight. Having only 8GB of G.Skill Trident Z DDR4 3200 is a struggle for next-gen textures; my physical RAM was pinned at 95-98%, forcing the system to constantly swap to the page file on my drive. I tried dropping the texture quality to Low, but the game looked like a blurry mess of pixels, which was totally unacceptable. Instead, I manually moved the virtual memory to my fastest NVMe SSD and locked both the initial and maximum size to 16GB, while killing every useless background process. Looking at the RTSS frame time graph, the intervals stopped swinging wildly between 15-45ms and settled into a clean 11-16ms range. I did notice the system boot time slowed down slightly after the tweak, but a quick boot-item cleanup fixed that. RAM temps sat around 42-46℃. Resource Monitor shows the swap rate has plummeted, and the input lag is finally gone.
