How do I prevent stuttering during garbage collection? (480MB +)

[Knight]

Is there a technical way of seeing which mod is causing lag spikes? I don't want to have to manually go through each of my mods and check, surely there's a mod tool or even another mod altogether that can help here? From what I've briefly tested, no Dev setting is capable of this.

Any help? Thanks.

[Knight]

Okay, I've found my issue by using RuntimeGC and setting the memory update speed to 0.03 seconds. Once the RAM exceeds 480MB it resets (garbage collection) and stutters -- badly. My new problem is: how do I stop it from severely stuttering during garbage collection?

[Canute]

I would look if i can free more RAM.
Shutdown some background process you don't need.
Better you don't let them even start on Windows startup.

[Knight]

My startup programs are meticulous and I never have more than 6 background apps. Also, I've got 16GB of RAM - this is neither a hardware nor software issue. It's exclusively Rimworld.

I think I'm just gonna have to test each of my mods individually until I find a resolution. Thanks for the response though.

[Canute]

Do you use the 32bit Rimworld ? And why not the 64 bit one, then these memory problems shouldn't exist.

[Knight]

I use 64Bit but it doesn't matter, the RAM usage doesn't go above 500MB. Also, this wasn't an issue back in B19 and B18 - the 32bit versions of the game.

[Canute]

That is very curious.
Does it happen without RuntimeGC  too ?