Why does Kioxia Exceria Pro 1TB stutter in Spider-Man?
Whenever I'm zipping between skyscrapers, the asset streaming just falls off a cliff, causing my frame rate to bounce violently between 60 FPS and 15 FPS. Looking at the logs, the Kioxia Exceria Pro 1TB controller was struggling with fragmented assets, with random read latency swinging between 85-110ms—it was honestly baffling. I wasted some time trying a disk defrag, which was a total disaster; it didn't help speed at all and just spiked the write amplification. I eventually dove into Device Manager and bumped the NVMe controller queue depth from 32 to 64, while also forcing the write cache flush in the registry. Running CrystalDiskMark, my 4K random reads jumped from 45-55MB/s to 68-75MB/s, and frame times finally settled between 16-22ms. Interestingly, after the first tweak, I noticed a weird drive detection lag during idle, which only vanished once I switched my power plan to High Performance. Now temps stay steady between 42-52℃ and the read/write curve is smooth as butter. The resource scheduling is finally behaving.
