How to stop 7800X3D minimum FPS drops in cities?
The stuttering in crowded hubs was absolutely brutal. I realized the 3D V-Cache is a beast, but if the memory latency is too high when processing massive NPC logic, the cache hit rate tanks and you get those jarring hitches. I tried lowering the render resolution first, but while the average FPS went up, the 1% lows were still hovering around 30 FPS, which felt completely disconnected and choppy. I went into the BIOS, locked my RAM at 6000MHz, and synced the FCLK to 2000MHz. Using a frame time analyzer, I saw the minimums jump from 28 FPS to 52 FPS, and the screen tearing just vanished. I actually pushed the FCLK too far initially and got stuck in a boot loop during memory training, but backing it off by 100MHz fixed it. CPU temps stayed between 55℃ - 62℃, and the RAM sat at 52℃ - 58℃. It feels like a different game now.
