Optimizing Crucial DDR4 3200 for Palworld base lag?
It's honestly ridiculous—just walking around my base, my FPS would tank from 80 to 30 for no apparent reason. It felt like the game was fighting my hardware. I found that the default XMP profile for the Crucial DDR4 3200 was hitting frequent refresh delays when handling massive amounts of entity data, making the CPU wait on the RAM. I tried killing every background app in Task Manager, but the drops stayed, so I gave up on that. I went into the BIOS and hard-locked the frequency at 3200MHz and set the minimum processor state to 100% in Windows. The frame time graph, which used to look like a mountain range, finally flattened out to a steady 12-16ms. The RAM temp climbed by 4℃ initially, but I tweaked the exhaust fan curve to bring it back down to 45-51℃. I used a system snapshot tool to back up the config, and it's finally rock solid.
