Why does my Vastarmor RX 9070 XT drop frames in the woods?
Every time I looked at dense foliage, my FPS would tank from 120 down to 50, which was honestly stressing me out. The performance panel showed memory bandwidth utilization hovering between 88-94% with constant page faults. I tried lowering shadow quality, but it only gained me 10 FPS without fixing the actual stutters—a total waste of time. I updated to the latest drivers and forced the texture pool limit up to 14GB in the config files. Addressing latency dropped from 18-32ms to a much cleaner 10-14ms. I noticed some textures popped in slowly after the tweak, but enabling the VRAM high-speed cache fixed that. Core temps stayed at 65-71℃ with fans at 1600 RPM. Comparing the frame time graphs, the input response finally feels snappy and immediate.
