Why is my Gainward RTX 5070 Ti stuttering in city hubs?
It's wild how the frame rate would tank from 144 down to 80 FPS the second I stepped into a busy street; the anxiety of that stutter is real. The default scheduling on the Gainward RTX 5070 Ti Snow Step OC 2.0 was struggling with streaming assets, leading to execution delays of 18-26ms. I tried enabling 'Ultimate Performance' mode in Windows, but the GPU hit 82℃ and the fans sounded like a jet engine, which was a huge mistake. Instead, I went to the NVIDIA Control Panel, set power management to 'Maximum Performance', and locked the VRAM at 21Gbps. RTSS showed the frame times tighten up from 22-40ms to a clean 10-14ms. I actually accidentally set my virtual memory to 0 during the process and the game crashed instantly, but resetting it to system-managed fixed it. Temps now hover between 62-68℃. After five stress tests of switching zones, the lag is gone. Settings are finally dialed in.
