Fixing Gigabyte RTX 5060 driver timeouts in Stalker 2
Trying to run this game on 8GB of VRAM is like trying to empty an ocean with a teacup; every time the scene shifted, the system hit me with a driver reset. The Gigabyte RTX 5060 WINDFORCE core was spiking to 84-89°C under load, which triggered the TDR protection. I tried enabling Low Latency Mode in the Nvidia panel, but the crashes didn't stop—in fact, it felt like they happened more often, which was just frustrating. I ended up using a tuning tool to downclock the core by 50MHz and forced the fan curve to 80% at 70°C. In 3DMark stress tests, the core stayed at 68-74°C and the driver stopped crashing. I did see some slight screen flickering when I first tried to undervolt, so I had to bump the voltage offset to +0.01V to stabilize it. VRAM temps are around 75-81°C, and the fans are loud as hell. After cleaning and exporting the crash logs via Event Viewer, my frame times finally settled at 5.1-6.4ms.
