Why is my TiPro9000 2TB lagging in Metro: Awakening?
Walking through those dark subway tunnels was a nightmare because the screen would just freeze for a fraction of a second, totally killing the immersion. The TiPro9000 2TB should be a beast at random reads, but Resource Monitor showed response times spiking to 15-22ms, which made me question the driver's scheduling logic. I wasted time cleaning out temp folders thinking it was a space issue, but that did absolutely nothing, which was beyond frustrating. I eventually flashed the latest official firmware and manually locked the NVMe controller queue depth to 128, while disabling Link State Power Management in the power plan. In CrystalDiskMark, my random 4K reads stabilized from 62-78MB/s up to 85-92MB/s, and texture pop-ins vanished. I actually bricked my boot sequence briefly when I first touched the queue depth, but moving the page file to a non-system partition sorted it out. Temperatures stayed around 48-55℃ with the heatsink feeling warm. Checked the data flow with a performance analyzer and the scheduling is finally rock steady.
