Why is Nioh 2 hitching on my Zhitai TiPro9000 4TB?
When loading into those heavy combat zones, the progress bar just hangs randomly, and that kind of random read stutter is a total nightmare for any hardcore player. Even though the TiPro9000 has insane theoretical speeds, HWiNFO showed my response times jumping wildly between 12-28ms when handling small file fragments. I tried disabling Fast Startup in Windows first, but that was a waste of time—it actually added 3 seconds to my load times, which just left me scratching my head. I eventually used a professional tool to force 4K alignment and nuked all the outdated redundant drivers from the system. After that, my random read performance jumped from 35MB/s to a steady 52-58MB/s, and the stuttering during scene transitions completely vanished. Interestingly, after the first alignment attempt, my total disk capacity looked slightly off, and I had to reformat the boot partition to get it back to normal. Now, the drive sits between 45-55℃ with response times locked at 25-31ms. Checked the performance panel and everything is green; frame times are finally rock steady at 5.1-6.4ms.
