Why is Silksong hitching on my Zhitai TiPro9000 1TB SSD drive?
When diving into the deeper underground areas, I hit these blatant stepped stutters that felt totally bizarre for a PCIe 4.0 setup. While the Zhitai TiPro9000 kills it in sequential reads, the random 4K performance was a nightmare, swinging wildly between 42-58MB/s. I tried disabling the write cache in Windows settings first, but that was a mistake—loading times actually jumped by 3 seconds, which left me completely baffled. I eventually grabbed the latest vendor drivers and cranked the I/O queue depth from the default 32 up to 128, while simultaneously flipping the disk scheduling algorithm to High Performance in the registry. Using AIDA64 storage benchmarks, I saw the random read latency tighten up from 85-110us down to a steady 52-64us, making the map transitions feel seamless. I did notice some slight disk usage spikes during idle right after the queue tweak, but that vanished once I switched my power plan to Ultimate Performance. The drive stayed around 48-55℃, feeling warm to the touch. After confirming the low-level instruction sets were loaded via the tool panel, my frame times finally stabilized at 5.1-6.4ms.
