Should I downgrade drivers to stop RTX 5070 Ti stuttering?
Every time I opened fire in an open field, the screen would just freeze for about 0.3 seconds. That kind of random stuttering had me on the verge of smashing my keyboard. The latest drivers for my Gainward RTX 5070 Ti Snow Step OC 2.0 were struggling with complex lighting, causing frame times to spike from 8ms to a massive 110ms. I tried updating Windows patches first, but that was a total waste of time—it didn't fix the lag and actually slowed my boot time by 8 seconds. It was a complete nightmare. I eventually used DDU to wipe everything clean and rolled back to a stable version from two iterations ago, while disabling the built-in driver overlay. RTSS showed frame times returning to a healthy 7-12ms, and the combat felt fluid again. I did lose about 3 FPS at 4K after the rollback, but that's a tiny price to pay for a game that doesn't hitch. GPU core temps stayed between 64-69℃. I finalized the stability settings in the driver control panel.
