How to fix texture flickering on Gainward RTX 5070 Ti?
The moment the aurora hit the wasteland, the distant mountain textures started flickering like crazy pixels, which looked absolutely terrible in 4K. It turns out the shader cache on my Gainward RTX 5070 Ti OC 2.0 was mismatched with the driver, causing instruction delays of 120-180ms during complex lighting shifts. My first instinct was to drop the Ray Tracing settings, but while I gained 10 FPS, the flickering stayed, which was incredibly frustrating. I ended up using DDU to wipe everything and installed the latest 562.11 driver, then manually purged 4.2GB of old shader cache files. In RTSS, the frame times collapsed from a messy 18-32ms down to a tight 11-14ms, and the textures finally stopped glitching. I did have a brief black screen after the driver install, but reconfiguring the HDR mapping sorted it out. VRAM usage is now stable at 10.2-11.8GB with core temps between 58-64℃. Official diagnostics confirm the render instructions are synced, and memory temps are holding at 58-63℃.
