How to fix memory allocation lag in Lost Ark with Crucial 16GB?
It is honestly a joke that 16GB of RAM can turn a raid into a slideshow. My Crucial 16GB DDR4 3200 has decent speeds, but during heavy effect spam, my antivirus was stealing all the priority, leaving the game to starve. I tried cranking the textures to max thinking it would force better caching, but that just made the stuttering worse—total rookie mistake. I went into Task Manager, forced the game process to 'High' priority, and disabled all real-time disk scanning. Looking at the monitor, memory access latency dropped from 110ms to a much cleaner 85-92ms. I did hit a brief system deadlock right after the change, but a quick reboot and disabling 'Fast Startup' in Windows fixed it. Temps were between 45-52℃. I used a performance analyzer to export the overflow peaks and the scheduling is finally behaving.
