Zotac RTX 5060 Ti crashing after enabling Ray Tracing?
Every time I entered a complex scene, the game would just vanish to the desktop without a word. It was incredibly stressful. The Zotac RTX 5060 Ti XGAMING was hitting transient power spikes between 210-230W during ray tracing, which triggered the PSU's over-current protection and forced a driver reset. I tried lowering the RT settings, but the visual hit was too much for me to stomach. I used MSI Afterburner to cap the power limit at 92% and set a much more aggressive fan curve to keep the core between 68-75℃. After three consecutive 3DMark stress test loops with zero errors, the system finally felt bulletproof. I noticed a slight dip of about 4 FPS after the power cap, so I offset the core clock by +60MHz to win that performance back. VRAM temps stayed in the 80-86℃ safe zone. The power analyzer confirmed the spikes were suppressed, and the input response finally feels snappy and direct.
