How to optimize Kioxia EXCERIA PLUS G4 for Death Stranding 2?
The difference is night and day. Once I optimized the queue depth, those annoying micro-stutters while crossing rugged mountains just vanished. The PCIe 5.0 link on the EXCERIA PLUS G4 was struggling with the massive terrain data in Death Stranding 2, causing sync delays of 12-20ms and frame times jumping between 18-32ms. I tried enabling 'Ultimate Performance' mode in Windows, but the drive just sat at 65℃ and the hitching stayed. It was clear that a simple power plan wouldn't fix a low-level I/O conflict. I went into Device Manager and bumped the NVMe controller queue depth from 1024 to 2048. RTSS showed frame times tighten up to 10-14ms, and the response felt incredibly snappy. I did notice some drive detection lag during idle after the change, which disappeared once I switched the power management to High Performance. Temps are now 58-64℃. Switched the performance mode in the system center and it's gold.
