How to fix Destiny 2 hitching on Zhitai TiPro9000 4TB?
During the loading phase for strikes, I noticed the drive's response time occasionally spiking to 110-140ms, which caused the screen to just lock up for a second. The TiPro9000 seemed to struggle with fragmented assets, making the game feel incredibly sluggish. I first tried killing every single background process in Windows, but that only shaved off about 0.8 seconds from the load time—a complete waste of time that left me totally baffled. I eventually dove into Device Manager and bumped the NVMe driver queue depth from the default 1024 up to 2048, while simultaneously slamming the power plan to High Performance. After running CrystalDiskMark, my random 4K reads jumped from 58-65MB/s to a much steadier 82-88MB/s, and the stuttering completely vanished. I did have a nightmare moment where I tried messing with the registry to force I/O priority and got an immediate BSOD; I had to roll everything back and stick to the driver tweaks to get it stable. With the drive idling between 46-52℃, the throughput is finally where it should be, and my frame times are rock steady at 5.1-6.4ms.
