Persistent FPS Drops in War Thunder: Seeking Solutions

Have nvidia and discord overlays disabled since day 1 since I don’t like them xD

Tried 80-90% of all solutions except stop playing, Nothing is running hot or bottlenecking either, Think a reboot fixed it yesterday but now it’s back… Going to try that again now and see if it helps.

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Oh my God!!!

im not using NVIDIA but i have the same issues as yours, i tried all the solutions and it didnt work, it used to turn normal if i just restart then its not working anymore, ive even dissasembled my PC and checked if anything is broken/incorrectly put, and its still not working ,using a new drive doesnt work either

I actually play on 1080p not planning on moving on 4k or 2k soon, my resolution is 1920x1080, I decided to deactivate RT because of performance downsides, also, the fps drops still happen if I turn it on, only on newly added or reworked maps and when you zoom into the map from planes. thanks for the advices I actually want a 4070super but probably not gonna happen soon.

Airflow inside the case is very important, but I can tell you definitely and clear as day the grills , plastic panels some filters will diminish that greatly while sometimes adding noise.

Targeted airflow like a fan on the back of the card will help to specially if you t pads on the card are in good shape.
Also targeted airflow will beat in the efficiency the air pressure in your case. Very rare air pressure inside the case will cool properly the back of your card, and is enough. That is where targeted airflow gets the crown.

Now day heat will traverse PCB of the card a lot do the layers of copper present in PCB sandwich. So you cool it from the other side.

Lock FPS to lower value than you have now and test like that.
Delete Nvidia cache before launching the game.

Use MSI afterburner and Riva tuner to monitor while gaming - frame time line will show you immediately spikes if is not ok, lower and cap FPS till that line is smoother.

Service your card T paste and T pads. Dry T paste and specially dry T pads will keep VRAM and VRM hot. VRM hot will throw too much oscillations of voltages and just being unstable themselves will keep VRAM hot as well.

While 4060 TI with 8GB VRAM and 128 bit should be fine for 1080 P sometimes VRAM reach saturation.
In some titles you will have stuttering.
Also try to look at read team for upgrade. A RX 9070 will suffice for 1080P or 1440P when price gets around 500. You can stay for 4070 Super cause you have 12GB at 192 bit. But again around 500-550 mark not more.
9070 You got 16GB at 256bit, that 256 bit is just a wider “highway” of communication and is very important.
256bit means VRAM is able to talk faster with your GPU core when is need it.

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