Why does my Sapphire RX 7650 GRE tear during fast gallops?
While tearing through the maple forests, I noticed these subtle, jagged tears on the edges of the screen that became a total nightmare whenever I flicked the camera. Checking my logs, the Sapphire RX 7650 GRE core clock was bouncing wildly between 2400-2600 MHz, causing frame times to swing from 11-24ms. I tried turning on V-Sync first, but that was a mistake; the input lag shot up to over 40ms, making the controls feel like I was playing in mud. I eventually dove into the driver panel, forced the sampling rate to 10x, and enabled FreeSync. Looking at the RTSS frametime graph, the spikes flattened out to a steady 8-13ms, and the fluidity was night and day. One heads-up: the first time I bumped the sampling, VRAM usage spiked to 7.8GB and caused a momentary stutter, so I had to drop texture quality from Ultra to High to stabilize it. Core temps settled at 62-68℃ with fans humming at 1400 RPM. Confirmed the sampling parameters are now locked in the driver profile.
