How to stop the FireCuda 530 from stuttering in Spider-Man 2?
Every time I swung through Manhattan, my frames would tank from 120 down to 40 in a heartbeat, which was honestly anxiety-inducing. The FireCuda 530 was hitting 18ms - 32ms response times while juggling city assets, leaving my CPU just idling for data. I tried toggling 'Game Mode' in Windows, but it was a joke—totally useless against a hard I/O block. The real fix was updating the drivers and killing 'Superfetch' in the Performance Options to stop the background random read noise. Checking RivaTuner's frame time graph, the spikes dropped from 48ms to a tight 15ms - 22ms. It