Solving VRAM allocation issues on Vastarmor RX 9060 XT
The default VRAM scheduling on this card is a complete joke; push the settings a bit and it just starts choking. In 4K mode, the Vastarmor RX 9060 XT's VRAM usage was swinging wildly between 13.5-15.2 GB, causing the memory controller to lag by 18-26 ms, which tanked my FPS from 80 down to 30. I tried 'Performance Enhance' in the driver, but it didn't stabilize anything—it actually started BSOD-ing my system every two hours. I finally manually locked my system pagefile to 32 GB and optimized the VRAM pre-allocation weights. Continuous monitoring in GPU-Z showed the memory clock stabilize at 2200 MHz instead of fluctuating around 2000 MHz, and the drops vanished. My load times increased by about 2 seconds after the pagefile change, but moving the file to a high-speed NVMe partition fixed that. GPU temps are holding at 65-72°C, and the response time is now lightning fast.
