RAM Hard Faults responsible for most deaths

Every map I enter, I have to sit with the ESC menu open for a good 5 minutes, watching perfmon Memory tab waiting for the Hard Faults to drop below 100%. Even after that, I keep dying to invisible enemies because their assets haven't loaded yet, I finally see them about 30 seconds waiting at the respawn screen, usually a Rare that triggers a ton of HDD thrashing for whatever reason. I am on minimum quality, 16Gb of RAM.