Avowed is lagging hard in forest areas due to VRAM overflow on my Zotac 2060 Super. Fix?

Every time I step into a dense forest, my FPS plummets from 50 to 12. It's an absolute cliff-dive and honestly pathetic. The 8GB on the Zotac RTX 2060 Super is just not enough for modern 4K textures, forcing the system to use slow system RAM as virtual VRAM, causing massive 150-300ms spikes. I tried setting everything to Low, but the game looked like something from 20 years ago, which just made me angry. I went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, manually set the Shader Cache Size to 10GB, and optimized the Windows page file size. In random R/W tests, the stuttering from VRAM swapping dropped by 60%, and load times were 25% faster. The first time I tweaked the cache, the game took 10 seconds longer to boot, but moving the cache path to an NVMe SSD fixed that. GPU temps sit at 72-80°C with fans at 1800 RPM. Backed up all driver configs via system snapshot.