Fixing RX 9070 XT 16G stuttering in Nioh 2
Man, this card is an absolute beast, but it's hilarious that it struggles with an older title like this. The new architecture drivers on the Sapphire PULSE RX 9070 XT were clashing with old API instructions, and the background overlay services were fighting for I/O resources. My frame times were bouncing between 10ms and 42ms like crazy. I tried a Beta driver, which stopped the spikes but introduced hideous texture flickering—it was total mental torture. I ended up going into the Services manager and killing every unnecessary AMD helper service, then nuked 3.1GB of shader cache. RTSS finally showed a clean line between 8-12ms, and that 'twitchy' feeling is gone. I did accidentally break my screen recording software by disabling too many services, but a clean install of the lean driver fixed it. Temps are chill at 61-67℃. I exported the frame time data to verify the fix, and fans are steady at 1400-1600 RPM.
