Is the Kioxia EXCERIA PRO cache scheduling actually the problem?
Testing on Win11 24H2 with v560.1 drivers, report 2025-NIOH-01 showed the controller was absolutely screaming under RT loads. At first, I tried bumping the process priority in Task Manager, but GamePP showed frame times still jittering wildly between 12ms - 25ms. Complete waste of time. I realized the cache policy was the real killer, so I dove into the Advanced System Settings, went to the Performance options under Virtual Memory, and manually locked the page file to a non-system drive while forcing a purge of 2.3GB - 3.1GB of redundant background cache. HWiNFO finally stabilized the NVMe read/write temps at 51℃ - 58℃, and the sawtooth frame curve actually flattened out. It fixed the micro-stuttering, but in massive scenes, the hardware thermal limit of the controller still causes some frame drops. That is just the physical reality of this drive.
