How to stop Kioxia G4 from crashing during scene loads?
Seeing the Zone unfold for the first time is amazing, but the random hard locks turned the experience into a total disaster. The Kioxia EXCERIA PLUS G4 was having a handshake struggle with my motherboard's PCIe 5.0 link, causing 100-300ms of latency that triggered a timeout deadlock in the game engine. I tried disabling the virtual memory file, but that just made the crashes happen more often—a complete waste of time. I updated the motherboard BIOS to the latest version and forced the M.2 slot from 'Auto' to 'Gen5'. In CrystalDiskMark stress tests, reads stayed steady at 9000-11000MB/s, and the freezes stopped. I noticed the boot time increased by about 3 seconds after forcing Gen5, but disabling 'Fast Boot' in the BIOS fixed that. Drive temps are sitting at 52-62℃. MemTest86 confirmed zero data errors, and frame generation time is now stable at 5.1-6.4ms.
