Fixing VRAM scheduling lag for Gigabyte RTX 5060 Ti?
Sneaking through a crowded plaza was giving me major anxiety because of the jagged screen tearing. Even with 16GB of VRAM on the Gigabyte RTX 5060 Ti GAMING OC, the default memory management was choking on massive NPC textures, creating a scheduling lag of 15-25ms. I tried enabling 'Low Latency Mode' in-game, but it actually made the tearing worse—a total step in the wrong direction that left me feeling pretty defeated. I eventually went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, set Power Management to 'Prefer Maximum Performance,' and forced V-Sync to 'Fast.' Monitoring with RTSS, my frame times collapsed from a wild 12-28ms swing down to a tight 8-12ms, and the tearing vanished. I did run into a weird flickering issue at first because my refresh rate wasn't synced, but locking it manually to 144Hz fixed it. Core temps are now steady at 62-68℃ and VRAM is sitting at 75-82℃. The sync rate is now at 98%, and the input lag is finally gone, though the GPU fans are a bit louder.
