Is the Sapphire RX 9070 XT running out of VRAM in Nioh 2?
This card is a total power hog, and it's honestly hilarious that it can actually max out the VRAM in Nioh 2. I was seeing usage hover between 14.2-15.8GB, and every time the resource reclamation kicked in, my FPS plummeted from 140 down to 30. It felt like the game was trolling me. I tried dropping textures to Medium, but the game looked like a pixelated mess, so I refused to settle for that. Instead, I used a memory analysis tool to force-expand the game's texture pool cache and disabled the system's virtual VRAM mapping. Monitoring via GPU-Z, the memory clock finally stayed pinned at its max without those sudden resource-related freezes. I did have three straight crashes when I first messed with the cache, but increasing the Windows page file to 32GB finally stabilized it. Temps were 65-72℃ with fans at 1800 RPM. I exported the peak VRAM logs to confirm the fix, though the game's memory management is still a bit clunky.
