Stop Driver Response Timeouts
It's ridiculous that a card of this level just freezes during combat; I noticed the VRAM clock suddenly dropped to 200MHz via GPU-Z, freezing the screen for 0.8 seconds. I first tried disabling all power-saving options in the driver panel, but it was useless; the freeze frequency actually increased. I then used the GamePP Peripheral Driver Conflict Detector and found a severe I/O conflict with an old audio driver, so I disabled the service. RTSS showed frame times converged to 11-15ms, AIDA64 confirmed fan speeds at 1800-2100RPM, and GPU-Z tracked VRAM at 10.5-12.2GB.