Why is my RX 9070 XT dropping frames in Far Cry 6 jungles?
It's honestly pathetic that a top-tier card drops to 50 FPS in a jungle fight; it's a total waste of hardware. I found that the Vastarmor RX 9070 XT Alloy driver was clashing with old shader cache remnants, causing the GPU load to bounce wildly between 10% and 90%. I tried turning off all Ray Tracing first, but the drops stayed and the game looked bland—a complete waste of time. I eventually used DDU to wipe every trace of the old drivers, installed the official stable build, and manually purged 4.2GB of shader cache. In the re-test, frames stabilized at 110 - 125 FPS with no more dips. I did have some weird black screen flickering right after the driver reinstall, which only stopped after I updated the motherboard chipset drivers. Core temps are now a chill 60℃ - 66℃ with very low fan noise. I backed up the current config, and VRAM temps are sitting at 58℃ - 63℃, though the DDU process is a tedious chore.
