Why is my Gigabyte RTX 5060 stuttering in Kai no Kiseki?
When the flashy combat effects hit at 4K, my frame rate crashed from 60 to 40 FPS. That feeling of power turning into a stuttering mess is the worst, and I was desperate to squeeze more out of this card. The Gigabyte RTX 5060 Windforce's 8GB VRAM was just choked, with usage locked at 95-98% for 4K textures. I tried dropping textures to Medium, but the game looked like a blurry mess—basically playing 720p on a 4K screen, which was pathetic. I went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, set Power Management to 'Prefer Maximum Performance,' and pushed the VRAM clock to 110% using a tuning tool. In RTSS, frame times dropped from 20-35ms to a tight 13-16ms. I did get some slight artifacting and flickering when I first pushed the clocks, but backing it off by 50MHz made it rock solid. GPU temps stay at 62-68°C with fans at 1400 RPM. Bandwidth efficiency is up 15%, and the mode switch worked.
