How to fix loading hitches on Gainward RTX 5070 Ti in TLOU 2?
The moment I enter a new area, the game hitches hard, with FPS plummeting from 110 down to 42. In a story-driven game, that kind of drop is absolutely lethal to the immersion. Checking my monitoring logs, I noticed the cache mechanism on the Gainward RTX 5070 Ti Storm had a 0.07V voltage dip when handling massive texture writes, causing I/O wait times to spike. I tried lowering texture quality first, but the game looked like mush, and I wasn't about to settle for that. I went into Device Manager, disabled the write-cache buffer flushing policy, and used a partition tool to ensure a perfect 4K alignment. Monitoring with RTSS, the frame time spikes during loads dropped from 32ms to a tight 11-15ms. It's finally silky smooth. I did run into a minor file index error after an improper shutdown during the tweak, but a quick CHKDSK run sorted it. GPU temps sat at 65-72℃, VRAM at 80-85℃, and memory temps stayed between 58-63℃.
