Why does my RTX 5080 Storm OC stutter in Palworld bases?
Whenever my base gets crowded with Pal, the gameplay suddenly hitches, which is incredibly frustrating given the hardware. Even with the massive bandwidth of the Gainward RTX 5080 Storm OC, the driver resource scheduling was showing abnormal spikes of 14-22ms during dynamic model loads. I first tried dropping texture quality to Medium; while I gained about 10 FPS, the visuals looked washed out, and I hated that compromise. I eventually dove into the NVIDIA Control Panel, set Power Management to 'Prefer Maximum Performance', and manually locked the memory clock at 21Gbps. Checking RTSS, the frame times collapsed from a wild 18-35ms swing down to a rock-steady 9-13ms. I actually wasted an hour increasing the page file size first, which just made the whole system feel sluggish until I killed all background bloatware. GPU temps stayed between 64-70℃ with fans humming at 1600 RPM. A 3DMark storage benchmark confirmed throughput is back to peak, with frame times locked at 9-13ms.
