Why does my Gainward RTX 5070 Ti Snow Step OC 2.0 lag in FF16?
It's honestly ridiculous that a high-end card like this stutters during ultimate abilities; it felt like I was playing on an office laptop. The 16GB VRAM on the Gainward RTX 5070 Ti Snow Step OC 2.0 was struggling with massive particle effects, with the memory clock bouncing between 1.5GHz and 2.2GHz, causing frame times to swing violently from 20-40ms. I tried slamming every setting to low, but the game looked like a pixelated mess and the stutters were still there—total waste of time. I eventually went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, switched the Power Management Mode from 'Normal' to 'Prefer Maximum Performance', and enabled G-Sync hardware synchronization. The frame time analyzer showed the drops went from 6 times a minute to basically zero. My GPU temp jumped by 8℃ initially, so I had to adjust the fan curve to 75% at 68℃ to keep it stable. Core temps are now holding at 66-72℃. I've exported all the VRAM scheduling error logs from the system event viewer for record.
