Why is my RTX 5060 Ti 16G hitching in Night City?
Whenever I hit the crowded districts with Path Tracing on, my frame times would suddenly jump from 14ms to 38ms, which completely kills the combat flow. Even with 16GB of VRAM, the driver's allocation strategy in Overdrive mode is a total mess, causing effective bandwidth to swing wildly between 210-250GB/s. I first tried forcing 'Prefer Maximum Performance' in the NVIDIA Control Panel, but that was a joke—average FPS went up by 4, but my 1% lows tanked by 12%. I eventually dove into the registry to tweak the VRAM virtualization scheduling weights and bumped the game process priority to 'Realtime'. Monitoring with HWiNFO showed the memory clock stabilizing at 2100MHz, and the frame time curve finally flattened to a steady 11-16ms. I actually crashed the Desktop Window Manager (DWM) during my first attempt until I backed off the scheduling value by 2 units. Core temps stayed between 62-68℃ with fans at 1400 RPM. After a benchmark run, the 11-16ms frame time is rock steady, though the registry edit felt like walking through a minefield.
