Dead Space 2 Remake causes my system to hang during save loads with a WD SN850 2TB; should I update the firmware to fix I/O conflicts?

I was so hyped for the remake, but the screen just froze during the save load. That excitement turned into pure rage instantly. The old firmware on the WD SN850 had serious sync errors with DirectStorage commands, causing I/O requests to pile up within 0.5ms and triggering a driver timeout. I tried disabling high-res textures, which let me in, but the game would still crash the second I switched scenes. I finally used the WD dashboard to update to the latest 2026 stable firmware and performed a 4K alignment on the partition. The disk controller errors in the Event Viewer completely vanished, and load times dropped from 15 seconds to 4 seconds. The update process was a nightmare—the software failed to recognize the drive three times before it finally worked. Now, temps are a steady 42-50℃, and random R/W performance is up by 12%. The boot logs confirm the I/O conflict is dead and gone.