Why is my G.Skill Trident Z RGB DDR4 3600 hitting 100% usage?
While expanding my automated factory, my memory usage spiked from 82% to 98% in a heartbeat, and the game just vanished to the desktop without a single error code. It was a total nightmare. The physical capacity of the G.Skill Trident Z RGB DDR4 3600 16GB kit just couldn't keep up with the massive amount of entity calculations, forcing Windows to lean on the painfully slow page file. I first tried dropping texture quality in the settings, which shaved off about 1.2 GB of VRAM, but the memory overflow crashes still happened every ten minutes. It was incredibly frustrating. Finally, I dove into Advanced System Settings and manually locked both the initial and maximum virtual memory size to 32 GB, hosting it on my fastest NVMe SSD partition. Checking Resource Monitor, I saw the commit charge expand from 18.4 GB to 31.2 GB, and the memory pressure curve finally flattened out. I did notice some slight loading hitches at first, but moving the page file off the system drive completely killed that issue. My RAM temps stayed between 42-48℃ with read/write latency holding steady at 65-72 ns. I used a config export tool to save this setup so I never have to deal with this mess again.