Why does Far Cry 6 lag during auto-saves on Kioxia Exceria Pro?
Every time that save icon popped up in the corner, my FPS would dive from 90 down to 40, which makes me want to throw my keyboard across the room. This Kioxia PRO drive was swinging between 10-30ms response times during small random writes, which just choked the game engine's sync. I tried adding 32GB of virtual memory, but that was a total waste—RAM usage dropped but the write lag stayed exactly the same. I finally went into Device Manager, changed the write cache policy to forced flush, and disabled PCIe link power management in the BIOS. AIDA64 showed random write latency dropping from 25ms to 8-12ms, and the save-stutters are basically gone. My idle power draw went up a bit after killing power management, but a custom power plan balanced it out. Temps are 40-50℃. It's finally playable, but the drive is a bit picky with power settings.
