Can virtual memory fix VRAM overflow on Gigabyte RTX 5060?
Against a VRAM hog like this, 8GB is honestly a joke. Every time I jumped dimensions, the system started swapping like crazy. VRAM usage was pinned at 95-99%, causing frame times to swing wildly between 12ms and 110ms—it was an absolute stutter-fest. I tried closing every single background app, but even with just one browser tab open, the VRAM was maxed out; it felt like fighting a losing battle. I manually set the virtual memory to 64GB and forced it onto a PCIe 4.0 NVMe partition, then set the game process priority to 'High' in Task Manager. While the page file read/write frequency is still high, the second-long freezes are gone. I noticed my boot time slowed down by about 5 seconds after the tweak, which I only fixed by disabling Fast Startup. GPU temps are 62-68°C and VRAM is hitting 78-84°C. I exported the swap curves to the performance monitor, and while it works, 8GB is just barely enough.
