Why does my Crucial 8GB RAM keep choking in Nightingale?
Exploring those fantasy realms was a nightmare because the screen would just freeze for a fraction of a second, making the controls feel completely unresponsive. My Crucial DDR4 2400MHz 8GB was hitting a hard ceiling, with Resource Monitor showing commit charges swinging wildly between 7.2GB - 7.8GB, forcing the system to lean on the sluggish HDD swap file. I tried killing every single background browser tab, but that only clawed back about 300MB, which felt like a joke given the level of stuttering. I eventually dove into Advanced System Settings and locked the virtual memory to a fixed range of 16384MB - 24576MB on my fastest SSD partition. Once I rebooted, the memory pressure curve flattened out, and my frame times tightened from a messy 25-48ms down to a rock steady 16-22ms. Interestingly, setting it to 8GB initially didn't fully kill the stutters in dense areas; I had to double it to 16GB to finally stop the fluctuations. Memory temps stayed around 41-47℃. Checking the performance counters confirmed the page file read/write frequency dropped significantly, keeping the frame time locked at 16-22ms.
