How do I stop VRAM paging on Gigabyte RTX 5060 Windforce?
The screen tearing whenever I zoomed out was unbearable, and the stuttering in densely populated villages was a total nightmare. The 8GB on the Gigabyte RTX 5060 is barely enough for high-res textures, with usage constantly hitting 7.6-7.9GB, forcing the system to swap to sluggish system RAM. I first tried dropping texture quality to Medium, which gave me about 10 more FPS, but the buildings looked like pixelated messes—a compromise I just couldn't live with. I went into the NVIDIA Control Panel and manually bumped the Shader Cache Size to 10GB and optimized the Windows page file size. In Resource Monitor, the VRAM swap frequency plummeted from 15-22 times/sec to just 2-5 times/sec. I did hit a brief hang at the loading screen after the first cache tweak, but a fresh driver update cleared that right up. Core temps are now sitting steady at 62-68℃. After a three-hour session, the drops are gone and the VRAM overflow is finally fixed.
