Stop RTX 5060 Gaming OC from clock switching in Mario?
Right in the middle of a smooth jump, I'd get this tiny screen tear—the kind of detail that's incredibly annoying in an emulator. The Gigabyte RTX 5060 Gaming OC keeps bouncing between 210MHz and 2500MHz during low-load scenes, causing frame times to swing wildly from 8 - 35ms. I first tried 'Prefer Maximum Performance' in the NVIDIA Control Panel, which stopped the jumping but raised my idle temps by 10℃, which felt a bit risky. Instead, I used MSI Afterburner to manually lock the core clock at 2100MHz and set the power management to constant. RTSS shows frame times are now a flat 11 - 13ms, and the tearing is gone. I actually locked the frequency too high at first and got some light artifacting, but dropping it by 100MHz made it perfectly stable. GPU temps are holding at 52 - 58℃. Performance analyzer confirms the clock jumping is dead, and VRAM is steady at 58 - 63℃.
