How to fix asset streaming lag on Vastarmor RX 9070 XT?
That feeling of flying between galaxies is finally back. Before this, every time I entered a new zone, the game would basically turn into a slideshow for a full second. The drivers on the Vastarmor RX 9070 XT Super Alloy PRO were choking on the massive texture streaming, causing the shader compilation queue to pile up in the background. I saw GPU utilization swinging violently from 40% to 95%. My first instinct was to drop shadow quality to Medium, which bumped the FPS by about 10, but the visuals looked washed out and the hitching didn't even go away—total waste of time. I ended up using DDU to completely wipe the old drivers and installed the latest Beta preview, then manually purged about 5.8GB of shader cache via the AMD software. Now, the transition between scenes is incredibly snappy with zero hitches. I did run into a weird issue where the game would black screen on launch with the Beta driver, but disabling 'Full Screen Optimizations' in Windows fixed it. The GPU is idling comfortably between 62-68℃. After several warp jumps, the conflicts are gone and memory temps are holding steady at 58-63℃.
