Is the RTX 5060 Ti hitting a power wall in Forbidden West?
It's ridiculous that a Ti card is dropping to 40 FPS in the woods; the performance was honestly a joke. My Zotac RTX 5060 Ti 8GB was seeing core clocks jump erratically between 2400MHz - 2600MHz, which is a textbook sign of hitting the default power limit. I tried pushing every setting to Max, but that just made the stuttering worse—total rookie mistake. I used MSI Afterburner to bump the power limit to 110% and set a custom fan curve to hit 80% speed at 70℃. The monitoring panel showed the clock stabilizing around 2550MHz, and the drops vanished. I actually scorched my VRAM to 92℃ the first time I raised the power, and I had to redo my case airflow to bring it back down to 82℃ - 88℃. Core temps now stay between 72℃ - 78℃, though the fans are a bit loud. I exported the frequency logs, and frame times are now a steady 5.1ms - 6.4ms, though the fan whine is noticeable.
