Fixing Kioxia Exceria Pro 1TB read bottlenecks in F1 25?
It was a complete disaster. Trying to run a 2026 title on an older 1TB drive felt like racing a snail; every single load took forever. The disk usage was pinned at 98%, triggering constant I/O waits that actually caused my CPU usage to drop because it was just waiting for data—it was incredibly frustrating. I tried lowering the graphics settings, but while the FPS went up, the loading time didn't move an inch, which was just torture. I eventually manually set the virtual memory to the fastest partition and locked the size at 16GB-16GB, while using a script to kill all background indexing services. In Resource Monitor, the disk queue length dropped from 12/sec to a manageable 3-6/sec, and load times were cut from 40 seconds down to 20. I did have one slow boot after locking the page file, but disabling the 'Super Cache' feature fixed it. Drive temps stayed between 40-46℃. I used a system imaging tool to back up this config so I don't have to do this again.
