How to fix frame drops on Zotac RTX 5070 Ti 16GB in PUBG?
It was a total nightmare; whenever I fought around a crate, my FPS would tank from 160 down to 55 without warning, which is jarring on a high-refresh monitor. I dug into the logs and found the Zotac RTX 5070 Ti 16GB VRAM controller was hitting 12-25ms scheduling delays when handling fragmented textures. I initially tried bumping the virtual memory to 48GB, but that was a complete waste of time and actually slowed down my loading speeds by 20%. I eventually went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, set Power Management Mode to 'Prefer maximum performance,' and manually flushed 4.2GB of shader cache. Checking with RTSS, my 1% lows jumped from 55 FPS to 110 FPS, and the frame time graph finally flattened out. I did hit a snag where VRAM temps spiked to 82℃, but I fixed that by tweaking the fan curve to 1800 RPM, bringing it back to 72-78℃. Core clocks stayed rock steady at 2610 MHz with power draw between 285-310 Watts. After running benchmarks, the scheduling lag is gone and frame times are now sitting pretty at 5.1-6.4ms.
