Is the Kioxia EXCERIA PRO unstable in Days Gone?
Riding through the wasteland was great until these random, jarring stutters started killing the vibe. The Kioxia EXCERIA PRO 1TB in PCIe 4.0 x4 mode was suffering from motherboard bus interference, causing data throughput to swing wildly between 3500-5000MB/s, which forced the game engine into a resource-wait state. I first tried lowering texture quality, but the game looked like a pixelated mess, which just wasn't an option for me. I went into the BIOS, changed the PCIe link speed from 'Auto' to 'Gen4', and slightly nudged the bus frequency to 100.1MHz to stabilize the signal. Using RivaTuner, I saw the frame time variance shrink from a chaotic 16-42ms to a steady 11-15ms. I did run into a slow boot issue after forcing Gen4, but a motherboard microcode update cleared that right up. Temps are sitting at 45-52℃. The data link is finally locked in, though the BIOS tweak was a bit of a gamble.
