How do I stop VRAM overflow on a Gigabyte RTX 5060 GAMING OC?
When those massive rat swarms charge, the screen just tears apart, and the input lag makes the game feel like it's running through molasses. The 8GB on the Gigabyte RTX 5060 is barely enough for these textures, with VRAM usage spiking wildly between 7.6GB - 8.1GB, forcing the system to dump data into the painfully slow disk cache. I tried forcing 'Prefer Maximum Performance' in the NVIDIA panel, but that was a mistake—my core temps shot from 65℃ to 81℃ without fixing a single stutter. I eventually dove into Advanced System Settings and manually locked my virtual memory to a non-symmetric range of 24GB - 32GB, while disabling Windows Fast Startup to purge ghost caches. Monitoring via GPU-Z showed the memory clock finally settling into a steady 13500 - 13700 MHz, and frame times dropped from a chaotic 25-48ms down to a crisp 18-22ms. I actually hit a Blue Screen of Death the first time I messed with the page file, which only stopped once I moved the paging file to a dedicated NVMe SSD partition. Now, core temps sit at 70-76℃ with fans humming at 1700 - 2000 RPM. The resource curve is finally flat, and the 18-22ms frame time feels rock steady.
