Dealing with VRAM speed drops on RX 9070 XT in The Sims 5?
What used to be a smooth stroll through the neighborhood suddenly turned into a slideshow, especially when loading complex architectural models. Checking the telemetry, the VRAM clock on my Vastarmor Radeon RX 9070 XT Super Alloy would tank from 2500MHz down to 800MHz the moment a new area loaded, causing obvious texture pop-in. I first tried the 'Maximum Performance' power plan in the drivers, but that was a disaster—the core temp spiked to 88℃ and the fans sounded like a jet engine taking off. Instead, I went into Advanced System Settings and manually assigned a 32GB page file to my fastest NVMe partition and cleared 4.2GB of shader cache in the AMD software. In GPU-Z, the VRAM bandwidth utilization dropped from a saturated 95% to a healthy 72-78% range. I did hit a snag where the system lagged during reboot after the page file change, but a chipset driver update cleared that right up. Temps settled at 67-73℃, power draw at 210-230 Watts, and VRAM temps stayed between 58-63℃.
