RX 9060 XT thermal monitoring in The Last of Us Part II
During high-precision stealth and combat, the screen would occasionally twitch, and it was incredibly obvious at 4K. I opened the GamePP Hardware Sensor Page and saw that my Vastarmor Radeon RX 9060 XT was hitting 78-84°C in AIDA64 during fights. While it wasn't hitting the absolute max limit, the core clock was definitely dipping. I tried lowering shadow quality in-game, but the drops kept happening, which proved it was a thermal management issue and not a VRAM bottleneck—that realization actually made me feel better. I went into the GamePP Fan Curve Config Panel and bumped the fan speed at 75°C from 60% to 85%.
