How to fix bus saturation on Zhitai TiPro9000 1TB?
Whenever I hit a complex 3D level, I'd get these random 2-second black screens that totally killed the immersion. The Zhitai TiPro9000 1TB was hitting 94-98% bus saturation during high-frequency random reads, creating a tiny but noticeable queue delay. I tried enabling memory mirroring in the emulator, which made loading faster but pushed my RAM usage to 28GB, causing the whole system to chug. It was actually exciting because it proved the bottleneck was the bus. I went into the BIOS and locked the M.2 slot to Gen4 x4 and killed the power-saving mode in the driver. My latency tester showed random read latency drop from 110ns to about 85-92ns, and the loads became way snappier. The drive ran about 3℃ hotter at low loads, so I slapped a small heatsink on it to bring it back down. Temps are now 46-54℃. Switched the read/write mode in the panel and it's perfect.
