Optimizing Kioxia EXCERIA PRO streaming for MSFS 2024
Flying fast over cityscapes really exposed the limits of this PCIe 4.0 drive; the excitement of the flight just dies when the frames drop. My disk IO response time was stuck between 18-25ms, leading to those rhythmic micro-stutters. I tried defragging, which is useless for an SSD, so I didn't see any gain. I went into the BIOS, killed SATA mode, and forced AHCI optimization, then moved my virtual memory to this drive. At first, my boot times slowed down, but once I disabled Windows Defender's real-time scanning, the stutters during high-speed flight vanished. The drive stays cool at 42-48℃. Looking at the Resource Monitor, the active time percentage dropped significantly, meaning the IO bottleneck is gone. RAM temps are steady at 52-55℃, though the load times are still a bit sluggish.
