How to stop VRAM overflow on Gigabyte RTX 5060 GAMING OC 8G?
The shadow tearing in the forest areas was just surreal—detailed lighting suddenly turned into these jagged, broken blocks. My Gigabyte RTX 5060 GAMING OC 8G was hovering between 7.6GB - 7.9GB VRAM usage, basically redlining, which forced the system into constant memory swapping. My first instinct was to drop global settings to Medium, but the image became so blurry it felt pointless. Instead, I went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, set Power Management to 'Prefer Maximum Performance,' and cranked my system page file up to 48GB to give the VRAM some breathing room. Monitoring showed VRAM read latency dropping from 110 - 140ns down to 85 - 95ns, and the shadows stopped glitching. I did hit a snag where the massive page file slowed down my boot times, but moving it to my NVMe Gen5 drive fixed that. The GPU core stays around 62 - 68℃ with the fans humming at 1600 RPM. After some stress tests, the shadow artifacts are completely gone, and memory temps are sitting comfortably between 58 - 63℃.
