How to fix texture flickering in Resident Evil 9 on RTX 5090?
The creepy walls in the game were suddenly covered in dense, colored noise, which is incredibly distracting when you're playing at 4K. It looked like the GDDR7 memory on my Manli Star Ship GeForce RTX 5090 D v2 OC 24GB was hitting signal jitter of 12-18ns while running at 28Gbps. My first instinct was to drop texture quality to 'High', but that killed the crispness of the environment, and I just couldn't bring myself to accept that compromise. I went the nuclear route: used DDU to wipe everything, installed driver version 570.12, and slightly underclocked the VRAM to 27.5Gbps. After running a 3DMark stress test, the memory stayed between 72-78℃ and the noise was gone. Funnily enough, the first time I installed the new driver, my PC black-screened and rebooted, and I had to actually reseat the GPU and clean the gold pins to get it working. Core clock is now a steady 2.6GHz with power draw between 420-450W. System logs show zero memory errors now, and temps are rock solid at 72-78℃.
