Posted May 06, 2023
pds41: QFT.
RAM failures are almost always immediate - if a chip is bad or incompatible, it's bad or incompatible from day one. RAM doesn't tend to fail over time; it's not like a SSD that has limited write cycles (largely because it's volatile memory)
That being said, OP's issues tend to be on loading a subset of games. It's highly unlikely to be OS related and as the failure always occurs on launching the game (and the games aren't at all RAM intensive), I'd say it's highly unlikely to be RAM related either.
Of course, that doesn't mean that it wouldn't be sensible to run a RAM test for a few hours just to make sure the chips are good; I just don't think it's the cause of his problems.
Still can't hurt to run mdsched.exe.RAM failures are almost always immediate - if a chip is bad or incompatible, it's bad or incompatible from day one. RAM doesn't tend to fail over time; it's not like a SSD that has limited write cycles (largely because it's volatile memory)
That being said, OP's issues tend to be on loading a subset of games. It's highly unlikely to be OS related and as the failure always occurs on launching the game (and the games aren't at all RAM intensive), I'd say it's highly unlikely to be RAM related either.
Of course, that doesn't mean that it wouldn't be sensible to run a RAM test for a few hours just to make sure the chips are good; I just don't think it's the cause of his problems.