How to stop VRAM stuttering in World of Warcraft with an RTX 5060?
Running through Orgrimmar and hitting a 0.2s freeze is a total mood killer; it makes the whole experience feel unstable. The 8GB on the Gigabyte RTX 5060 AERO is usually plenty, but with max settings and a bunch of addons, VRAM usage hit 7.5-7.9GB, forcing the system to swap to virtual memory. I tried lowering shadow quality, but it only saved 500MB and made the game look like mud—not a real fix. I went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, set Power Management to 'Prefer Maximum Performance,' and forced Texture Filtering to 'High Performance.' In RTSS, the frame time swings dropped from 15-40ms to a much smoother 8-14ms. I actually kept the resolution too high at first, which kept the VRAM on the edge, but dropping the render scale to 95% finally stabilized it. GPU temps are sitting at 64-70℃ with fans at 1400 RPM. VRAM usage is now capped at 7.1-7.4GB.
