Why is my SN850X causing texture pops in Hellblade 2?
The texture density in this game is a total drive killer. Whenever the character turned, the walls would flicker like a broken CRT monitor. The SN850X's low-power state transitions were creating 15-25ms of latency while streaming 4K textures, leaving holes in the rendering pipeline. I tried lowering texture quality in the NVIDIA panel, but the game looked like it was smeared in Vaseline—a joke of a solution that just made me want to rage quit. I went into Power Management, nuked all 'Fast Startup' and power-saving options for the drive, and updated the NVMe drivers. Monitoring via RTSS, frame times stopped jumping between 12-45ms and settled at a clean 11-16ms. I did find the idle temp rose by 5℃, but I just tweaked the fan curve to keep it at 45℃. Read speeds are now a rock-solid 6200-6800MB/s. I exported the I/O conflict logs for my own peace of mind, and fans are steady at 1400-1600RPM.
