Days Gone is hitting a rendering wall on my MSI board. Should I switch filter modes to fix this?

I had a total fail at first. I tried enabling AI Sharpening in the NVIDIA Control Panel on 'Quality' mode, and my VRAM usage instantly spiked to 16.2GB. The image looked sharp, but the frame rate tanked. I switched to GPU-Z to monitor the pressure and saw it bouncing between 14.5GB and 16.2GB, which was causing the rendering lag. I then used MSI Center to dial back the filter strength to 'Medium Sharpening,' and the VRAM usage dropped to 13GB. Suddenly, the visual pipeline felt fluid again. Verified it all with 3DMark. This taught me that you can't just max out AI sharpening; you have to balance the VRAM swing against the visual gain or the whole rendering chain just collapses.