How to stop texture flickering on the Radeon RX 9070 XT?
The texture flickering was honestly disgusting—it looked like tiny electrical sparks jumping along the edges of buildings, especially in the city center. My VastArmor Radeon RX 9070 XT Super Alloy was eating 14.2-15.8GB of VRAM with core temps at 62-68℃, but the texture load response times were hitting insane peaks of 110-135ms. I tried dropping textures to Medium, but the game looked like mud and the flickering stayed; it was clear this was a scheduling issue, not a capacity one. I manually bumped my system virtual memory to 48GB and killed the 'Fast Load Cache' option in the driver. After a reboot, my VRAM bandwidth utilization jumped from 72% to 89%, and the flickering disappeared after a 15-minute stress test. I actually accidentally underclocked the VRAM by 100MHz during the process, which tanked my FPS by 12 frames until I reset it. Power draw settled at 240-265W with fans at 1400-1500 RPM. Render pipeline check confirmed the mapping is finally back to normal.
