How to handle VRAM spikes on the Gigabyte RTX 5060 AERO OC?
Looting used to be smooth, but suddenly the game turned into a slideshow, especially during the initial drop—it was a nightmare. Checking the stats, the Gigabyte RTX 5060 AERO OC 8G was pinned at 95-100% VRAM usage, forcing the system to lean on the painfully slow page file. I tried toggling 'Prefer Maximum Performance' in the NVIDIA Control Panel, but the VRAM stayed saturated, and that band-aid fix left me feeling pretty disappointed. I eventually dropped the texture quality from Ultra to High and manually assigned a 32GB virtual memory page file to my fastest NVMe partition. In GPU-Z, the memory bandwidth utilization dropped from a choking 98% down to a healthy 75-82% range, and the fluidity came back. I did run into a weird issue where the system lagged during reboot after the page file change, which only cleared up after updating the motherboard chipset drivers. The core now stays between 64-70℃ with fans at 1500 RPM, and VRAM temps are holding at 58-63℃.
