How to stop Sapphire RX 9070 XT flickering in Cyberpunk 2077?
Night City's rainy streets had this weird color bleeding and flickering that made 4K gaming a total eye-strain. Looking at my logs, the Sapphire RX 9070 XT 16G core clocks were bouncing between 2400-2600 MHz, causing frame times to swing wildly from 14-32ms. I first tried lowering the ray tracing settings, but the game looked washed out and the flickering didn't even go away—it was incredibly frustrating. I then dove into the driver panel, forced 'Enhanced Sync' on, and locked the sampling rate to 144 Hz. Using a frame time analyzer, the variance collapsed to 11-15ms and the flickering vanished. I actually had a scary moment where the system black-screened and rebooted right after enabling Enhanced Sync, but a slight voltage bump to 1.15V stabilized everything. Now, GPU temps stay between 65-72℃ with fans spinning at 1500-1700 RPM. 3DMark stress tests confirm the sync is solid, and VRAM temps are holding at 58-63℃.
