Fixing WD SN850X read fluctuations in Ghost of Yotei
When my 1% lows finally stabilized above 80 FPS, the feeling of actually controlling my hardware was a huge rush. Initially, running through the snow plains was like looking at an EKG—my frame rate would jump between 110 and 60. The GamePP sensor page showed random read latency swinging between 15-45ms. I tried disabling the Windows indexing service, which lowered CPU usage by 2%, but the jumps remained, and that half-baked solution really annoyed me. I then jumped into the GamePP NVMe Queue Depth Config, bumped the read weight to 0.8, and optimized the write cache flush strategy. In RTSS, the frame time variance collapsed from 12-30ms down to a tight 8-14ms.
