Why is my Vastarmor RX 9060 XT lagging in Hellblade 2?

Looking at the insane skin textures in this game, my FPS would just dive from 60 to 35. The optimization is honestly a joke. Even with 16GB of VRAM, the Vastarmor RX 9060 XT was seeing bandwidth utilization drop by 15-22% in specific 4K scenes, clogging the whole render pipeline. I tried Radeon Super Resolution (RSR), but the image got this weird blur that made me want to pull my hair out. I eventually went into the advanced driver settings, set the shader cache to 'Override', and dropped Anisotropic Filtering from 16x to 8x. My frame time analyzer showed a drop from 20-45ms to a smooth 14-18ms. I did notice some flickering on the ground textures at first, but switching the anti-aliasing to TAA fixed it. The card is running at 68-75℃. I saved the config as a snapshot because I'm not going through that headache again.
Category:Overclocking Settings Last updated:May 16, 2026 6:49 PM