How do I stop the SN850X from hitching in Dune Awakening?
Whenever I hit the desert biomes, the loading bar just dies at 80% for several seconds, which completely kills my flow. The SLC cache on my WD Black SN850X 1TB was struggling with these massive sequential reads, with response times jumping wildly between 15ms - 38ms. I wasted time enabling Fast Startup and killing power-saving modes in Windows, but it did absolutely nothing—just a superficial fix for a deep hardware bottleneck. I eventually flashed the latest firmware and flipped the write caching policy to 'Force Flush' in Device Manager. In CrystalDiskMark 4K random read
