Why does my Kioxia Exceria Pro cause lag in AC Valhalla?
This is ridiculous. Two hours into a session and my frame rate plummeted from 90 FPS to 40 FPS, with massive loading hitches. I checked the logs and the Kioxia Exceria Pro 1TB was hitting 82℃, triggering a hardware-level throttle that cut read/write speeds down to 1500MB/s. I tried lowering the PCIe link power in the BIOS, but that was a total waste of time—it didn't cool down and just made loading 30% slower. I finally just bought an active M.2 heatsink with a fan and set the system power management to 'Balanced'. HWMonitor showed the temps dropping to a stable 55-62℃, and my FPS stabilized between 85-90. At first, I thought my GPU was overheating and spent an hour tweaking fan curves for nothing, which was incredibly frustrating. Now the drive maintains high performance even under heavy load. Backed up the config and it's finally solved.
