Why is my 16GB 5060 Ti showing blurry textures?
Seeing blurry textures on a 16GB card at 4K was infuriating. I suspected a scheduling bug. It turns out the Gigabyte RTX 5060 Ti GAMING OC has a VRAM allocation quirk in heavy foliage areas, causing fragmentation that limited usable memory to around 11-13GB. I tried 'Prefer Maximum Performance' in the NVIDIA panel, but the texture pop-in persisted—way too simplistic a fix. I ended up modifying the registry to lock the system page file at 32GB and used a VRAM management tool to flush redundant caches. In the analyzer, texture load latency dropped from 120-200ms to a snappy 45-60ms. I tried an aggressive flush at first, which caused micro-stutters, so I dialed the cleanup frequency back to every 5 minutes. GPU temps are sitting at 64-68℃ with fans at 1600 RPM. I bumped textures to 'Ultra' and the frame generation time is now a rock-steady 5.1-6.4ms.
