How to fix VRAM scheduling lag on Gainward RTX 5080 Storm OC?
Every time I teleport to a new zone, the game hitches for about 0.3 seconds. It's an incredibly jarring experience that makes me anxious. Even though the Gainward RTX 5080 has massive bandwidth, the system's virtual memory call latency was spiking between 110-150ms when loading fragmented textures. I first tried enabling the cache mode in the NVIDIA panel, but VRAM usage just sat at 15GB and the drops didn't stop—it was pretty frustrating. I finally manually moved the page file to a dedicated fast partition on my PCIe 4.0 NVMe and dialed the texture quality down from 'Ultra' to 'High'. RTSS showed frame times converging from 12-40ms down to 10-16ms, and the loading hitches basically disappeared. I actually messed up the page file size initially, which caused the game to crash instantly, but bumping it to 64GB fixed everything. GPU temps are steady at 58-64℃. I/O response is way better now; the controls feel instant again.
