Fixing rendering stutters on Gigabyte RTX 5060
When sneaking through the shadows, that feeling of fluid motion is everything. The Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5060 WINDFORCE 8G was pumping out frames that jumped wildly between 75-110 FPS, while my monitor was locked at 144Hz. This created a sync gap of 12-20ms, leading to obvious horizontal tearing. I first tried enabling V-Sync in-game, but the input lag shot up to over 40ms, making the controls feel sluggish and heavy. I knew I had to fix this at the driver level. I went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, forced G-Sync Compatible mode, and manually capped the max frame rate at 141 FPS. In RTSS, the frame time variance collapsed from 10-25ms to a smooth 6.8-7.5ms. After the first G-Sync tweak, I noticed some slight brightness flickering, which only went away after I updated the drivers and disabled the overlays. VRAM usage is now between 6.2-7.1GB and core temps are at 61-67°C. The tearing is completely gone, and the sync mode is finally working. Memory temps are steady at 58-63°C.
