Is the Sapphire RX 7650 GRE hitting a bandwidth wall in Enshrouded?
The loading speed was honestly a joke; watching buildings pop in like a slideshow was enough to make me want to uninstall. The bus utilization on my Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 7650 GRE 8G was hovering between 88% - 94%, showing that the memory bandwidth was completely choked by the massive amount of vertex data. I tried enabling 'Smart Access Memory' in the driver, but instead of a speed boost, the game just crashed straight to desktop during the loading screen—just a complete disaster. I eventually went into the BIOS and forced the PCIe slot to Gen4 mode and stripped out every unnecessary overlay in the driver panel. Running CrystalDiskMark, the latency dropped from 14-22ms down to 8-11ms. Interestingly, forcing Gen4 actually slowed down my boot time by about 3 seconds until I updated the motherboard microcode. Core temps are now 65℃ - 71℃ with fans at 1700-1900 RPM. I exported the transmission logs to verify the fix, and the fan speed has now settled into a quiet 1400-1600 RPM range.
