Why is my Zhitai TiPro9000 4TB stuttering in Starfield?
During the fast-travel phases in Starfield, the resource requests just spike like crazy, causing the system to completely lock up for a second or two. The issue is that once the SLC dynamic cache on the Zhitai TiPro9000 Limited Edition fills up after heavy writes, the random read speeds tank from 7000MB/s down to around 1200MB/s. This massive drop in throughput is what's killing the loading process. I initially tried bumping up the virtual memory size in Windows, but that was a total waste of time—it didn't help the stutters and actually just put more I/O pressure on the drive, which was honestly pretty frustrating. I eventually updated to the latest NVMe drivers and went into Device Manager to bump the queue depth from the default 1024 up to 2048, while also disabling hard disk hibernation in the power plan. After these tweaks, my CrystalDiskMark 4K random read scores jumped from 42MB/s to the 65-72MB/s range, and those annoying freezes are completely gone. I did hit a snag where the drive took a while to be recognized during boot right after changing the queue depth, but switching the power mode to High Performance fixed it. Temps are sitting steady between 45-52℃. I used the storage management tool to export and save these scheduling parameters.
