Solving driver conflicts for Zotac RTX 5070 Ti 16GB in CS2?
It's honestly pathetic that a top-tier card drops to 120 FPS just because of a smoke grenade. After analyzing, I found the Zotac RTX 5070 Ti 16GB driver was clashing with old shader cache leftovers when handling specific particle effects, causing the GPU load to bounce between 20% and 90%. I tried turning off all advanced lighting, but the drops stayed and the game looked like trash—a total waste of time. I used DDU to completely wipe every trace of the old drivers, installed the latest stable version, and manually purged 3.8GB of shader cache. Now, the FPS is locked between 350-400. I did have some weird black screen flickering right after the install, but updating the motherboard chipset drivers finally killed that. Core temps are 62-68℃ and the fans are barely audible. It took a while, but the smoothness is finally back.
