Stutters in Tarkov Recently are primarily tied to ram. If you have good frames otherwise and are occasionally stuttering or freezing in raid, Your ram is either not running at its rated speed (XMP is not enabled in BIOS), or you have less than 32 gigs of ram. I've not had these stutters at all since i upgraded to 32 gigs of ram about a year ago, but that's obviously anecdotal and results can vary system to system.
Tarkov is constantly loading a massive amount of assets on and off of ram, and will cause temporary freezes when your memory is over-taxed. (The install location is also critical, this game NEEDS to be installed on an SSD to run correctly due to the massive number of assets constantly being unpacked and moved around. If you don't have an SSD, that's the FIRST thing I would suggest investing in.)
I'm not encouraging everyone to just go out and buy 32 gigs of ram on a whim, unless you were planning on doing it anyway. There are other things we can try FIRST to eliminate other protentional causes before we start spending money.
So, first thing to do is to make sure you have XMP turned on in bios to make sure your ram is running at its rated speed. From my understanding, all motherboard manufacturers have XMP disabled by default, which causes your ram to run at HALF it's rated speed. Different motherboards have slightly different ways of going about doing this, so i would suggest googling how to do it based off your motherboard part number if you're unsure as to how. BIOS updates also commonly turn off XMP so even those that have previously turned it on should double check.
Second, is to create a manually managed custom page file on your fastest SSD for those with less than 32 gb of ram. A page file is essentially virtual random access memory (RAM), that allows your physical ram to dump some of its slower workload to slower storage. Your goal is to create a total of 32 gigs of physical and virtual ram. so if you have 16 gigs of physical ram, you want to create a page file of at least 16gb on your fastest SSD.
Here's a guide on how to do that:
These are a couple free and easy things you can try BEFORE you go out spending money to upgrade your PC that may or may not fix the issue. Try this stuff out, and comment below to let me know if it worked!
