How to fix texture pop-in with Kioxia Exceria Plus G4?
There's nothing like the rush of seeing a game go from 'stuttery pop-ins' to a 'silky smooth' experience. The Kioxia G4 is great at sequential tasks, but for the high-frequency fragmented assets in Wukong, the 4K random read latency was bouncing between 80-110ns, which meant distant objects only appeared right as I turned around. I tried lowering the texture quality first, but the game looked like mud, so I scrapped that immediately. Instead, I updated to the latest AMD chipset drivers and forced the drive from AHCI into NVMe optimized mode, while tweaking the I/O priority in the registry. Random read tests showed 4K speeds jumping from 38MB/s to 55-62MB/s, and the pop-ins totally vanished. I did accidentally delete a registry key and killed my internet connection for an hour, but a system restore point saved me. Temps are steady at 48-58℃. 3DMark storage benchmarks confirm the latency is way down now.
