How to stop ZOTAC RTX 2060 SUPER-8GD6 from lagging in Horizon?
The game had these tiny but irritating hitches when rendering massive amounts of vegetation, and it felt absolutely lethal during fast movement. The 8GB VRAM on the ZOTAC RTX 2060 SUPER-8GD6 was getting hammered, with bandwidth utilization pinned at 94-98%, causing frame times to swing wildly between 25-42ms. My first instinct was to drop texture quality to ease the load; I got a 6 FPS bump, but the visuals looked like mud, which was a total dealbreaker for me. I then dove into the NVIDIA Control Panel, forced the Power Management Mode to 'Prefer Maximum Performance', and disabled the system-wide Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling. Using a frame time analyzer, I saw the stutter frequency drop from 5 times a minute to zero, and the input lag disappeared. Interestingly, the GPU temp spiked by 7℃ immediately after changing the power plan, so I had to tweak my fan curve to hit 80% speed at 70℃ to keep it cool. Core temps now sit at 72-78℃. After two hours of gameplay, the drops are gone, and the underlying fault is finally sorted.
