The optimization in this game is a complete joke; walking through a city makes the frame rate tank to 20 FPS, and I seriously wanted to throw my keyboard. The Vastarmor RX 9070 XT Super Alloy Pro has the specs to handle it, but the driver was struggling with complex city models, causing GPU usage to bounce wildly between 40% and 99%. I tried enabling Resizable BAR in the BIOS, but that only gave me a pathetic 3 FPS boost, while the lows stayed at 18 FPS—it was a total waste of time. I eventually installed the beta drivers and manually forced a full shader recompilation while setting my power plan to Ultimate Performance. In city tests, the FPS went from 20 - 45 up to a much more stable 42 - 55. I did hit two Blue Screens after installing the beta driver, but disabling a third-party monitoring tool fixed it. Temp is 68 - 75℃, fans at 1800 RPM. I've backed up the config, and it's finally playable. Last updated onApril 13, 2026 9:26 PM.
During air strike missions, I noticed these irregular frame time jumps—basically a 0.1s freeze every time a big explosion went off. The Gainward RTX 5080 Storm OC runs its VRAM at 22 Gbps out of the box, but under extreme load, it was throwing a few checksum errors, forcing the driver to reset. I tried dropping the resolution to 2K to ease the load, but the hitches stayed, proving it wasn't a raw compute issue. I ended up downclocking the VRAM by 100 MHz and bumped my case fans to 1600 RPM to keep the memory cool. In RivaTuner, the frame times tightened from 11 - 35 ms down to 10 - 13 ms, and the stuttering vanished. I did experience some slight texture pop-in after the downclock, but adding 15 mV to the core voltage completely resolved it. VRAM is now 72 - 78℃, core is 64 - 69℃. After three high-intensity missions, it's finally rock solid. Last updated onApril 8, 2026 9:17 AM.
The moment the flickering stopped and the image cleared up, I was honestly stoked. In Palworld, especially around my base, the latest drivers for the Sapphire RX 9070 XT were causing severe texture conflicts, making the ground and building edges blink incessantly. It was an absolute eyesore. I tried disabling all shadows in-game, but that made the world look like a game from ten years ago, and I just couldn't live with that. I decided to be aggressive and rolled back to the previous stable driver version, then used DDU to wipe 4.2 GB of shader cache. In side-by-side tests, the FPS stayed between 95 - 105, and the flickering was totally gone. I did notice the game took longer to launch after the rollback, but enabling Fast Boot fixed that. GPU temp is sitting at 60 - 66℃ with fans at 1200 RPM. I switched the rendering mode from Quality to Performance in the driver panel, and it's finally sorted. Last updated onMarch 31, 2026 12:52 PM.
This card is an absolute power hog. During boss fights with all the effects cranking, power draw would hit 320 Watts, causing my clocks to plummet from 2600 MHz down to 1500 MHz. It turned the game into a slideshow, which was just ridiculous. While the Zotac RTX 5070 Ti cooling is decent, my motherboard's VRM couldn't keep up with those spikes. I tried pushing the power limit to 110%, but the temp shot up to 85℃ and the fans sounded like a jet engine taking off—I was honestly laughing at how bad it was. I eventually used a voltage curve tool to undervolt the points above 2500 MHz by 20 mV and capped the power wall at 300 Watts. In RTSS, the frame times finally converged from 18 - 45 ms down to a tight 12 - 15 ms. I actually crashed to a black screen a few times while tuning the curve, but adding 10 mV back in stabilized everything. VRAM temp is 78 - 84℃, core is 68 - 74℃. Exported the logs, and it's finally running right. Last updated onMarch 14, 2026 9:52 AM.
Every time I entered a crowded main city, I was on edge because a crash was practically guaranteed. The VRAM usage on my Manli Snow Fox RTX 5070 OC 12GB would instantly spike to 11.5 - 12.1 GB, hitting the hardware ceiling. I tried cranking my system virtual memory up to 64 GB to act as a buffer, but while the crashes slowed down, my loading times increased by 30%, which just made me more anxious. I eventually dropped the texture quality from Ultra to High and enabled VRAM management optimization in the control panel, setting the cache priority to Performance. Monitoring via GPU-Z, the VRAM usage stayed locked between 9.2 - 10.5 GB, and my frame rate smoothed out to 110 - 125 FPS. I did notice some blurry textures after the first drop, but a fresh shader cache reinstall fixed that right up. The core temp stays between 65 - 71℃ with fans at 1500 RPM. After a 4-hour stress test, it's finally stable, though I still worry about future updates breaking this. Last updated onMarch 13, 2026 10:11 PM.
