How to update Zhitai TiPro9000 firmware for Witcher 3?
As the streets of Novigrad were loading in, the drive would suddenly tank in speed, causing the screen to hitch. It was an annoying performance dip that I was determined to kill. The old firmware on the Zhitai TiPro9000 Limited Edition had a nasty instruction set conflict with 4K random reads, causing I/O wait times to jump between 15-40ms. I first tried disabling Fast Startup in Windows, but that just saved a few seconds on boot and did absolutely nothing for the in-game hitches. I finally used the official management tool to flash the latest firmware and re-aligned my disk partitions. In CrystalDiskMark, the random read speed jumped from 60MB/s to around 85-92MB/s, shaving about 5 seconds off the load times. I did run into a weird bug where the drive took 5 seconds to be recognized by the BIOS after the update, but updating the chipset drivers fixed that. Now the drive stays between 42-50℃ and the read curve is flat as a pancake. It's a night and day difference.
