How to optimize WD Black SN850 2TB for Avowed scenes?
Exploring the forests was a mess; my frame rate was bouncing between 50 and 78 FPS, which was honestly jarring. The WD SN850 2TB was struggling with the massive amount of small files, with 4K random read response times swinging from 0.7-1.4ms, leaving the CPU just waiting on the disk. I tried enabling 'Ultimate Performance' mode in Windows, but all that did was make my fans scream without fixing a single drop. I eventually used a process manager to crank the game's disk I/O priority to 'High' and killed the system's scheduled defrag. In the RTSS frame time graph, the jagged spikes smoothed out into a clean line. I did have a moment where my antivirus locked up the whole system during the priority shift, but adding the game folder to the whitelist solved it. Drive temps are sitting at 46-54℃. The frame fluctuation is gone, and temps are steady at 46-54℃.
