Is VRAM hitting the limit on the Manli Snow Fox RTX 5080?
Exploring the ruins was a disaster; my frame rate would suddenly tank from 120 FPS to 45 FPS, which is just anxiety-inducing. The 16GB of GDDR7 on the Manli Snow Fox was getting pinned at 15.2-15.8GB, forcing the system to swap to the slow system RAM. I tried dropping textures from 'Ultra' to 'High', but the pop-in was hideous and the loss of detail was just depressing. Instead, I went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, switched Texture Filtering Quality to 'High Performance', and manually allocated a 16GB page file on my fastest drive. VRAM peaks dropped to 13.4-14.1GB, and frame times stabilized from 15-40ms down to 8-12ms. Pro tip: don't put the page file on an HDD; I had slow boot times until I moved it to a PCIe 4.0 NVMe partition. Core temps are sitting at 64-70℃ with fans at 1600 RPM. Everything feels snappy and responsive under my fingertips.
