Solving RTX 2060 Super VRAM issues in Expeditions: Rome
While leading my legions into battle, I noticed my minimums were tanking to 20 FPS, which felt terrible at 2K resolution. The 8GB of VRAM on the Zotac RTX 2060 Super was struggling with the high-res textures, causing constant swap requests and making GPU usage swing wildly between 70% and 99%. I first tried killing every background app in Windows, but that only gave me a pathetic 2 FPS boost—it was clearly a hardware capacity bottleneck. I ended up manually setting my virtual memory (pagefile) on a fast NVMe SSD, locking it at 32GB, and enabling VRAM management optimization in the control panel. In RivaTuner, my minimums jumped from 20 to 32 FPS, and the stuttering dropped significantly. I actually had two system crashes due to disk write errors right after the change, but reformatting the pagefile sorted it out. The GPU stays between 68-75℃, and after three long battles, the memory temps are stable at 58-63℃.
