How do I fix I/O blocking on the Great Wall GW3300 1TB SSD?
Whenever I fast travel across Teyvat, there's this micro-stutter that feels like the game is gasping for air, and it's way more noticeable at 4K. I dug into the logs and found the GW3300's random read response was spiking between 15-28ms when hitting fragmented assets, basically choking the game engine's sync. I wasted some time trying to bump up the virtual memory, which lowered disk usage but did absolutely nothing for the latency—a total waste of effort. I eventually went into Device Manager, switched the disk write caching policy to 'Force Flush,' and disabled PCIe Link State Power Management in the BIOS. After running AIDA64, the random write latency plummeted from 22ms down to 8-12ms, and the teleport stutters vanished. I did notice a slight bump in idle power draw after disabling power management, but a quick tweak to the Windows Power Plan balanced it out. Temps are sitting steady between 42-50℃ now. I exported a system snapshot to lock in these settings, and the disk scheduling is finally rock steady.
