Solving Zhitai TiPro9000 storage issues in Horizon Zero Dawn?
This is just insane. I'm using the Black Myth limited edition top-tier drive, yet I'm getting disk-related stutters while loading the Horizon map—a complete disaster. Once the Zhitai TiPro9000's SLC cache fills up during heavy fragmented reads, the random read speed plummets from 70MB/s to under 20MB/s, causing 100ms freezes that make me want to smash my desk. I tried formatting the drive and reinstalling the game, but the lag happened in the exact same spots, which told me it was a driver scheduling issue. I installed the latest NVMe controller drivers, enabled forced write cache flushing in Windows performance options, and disabled PCIe link power management. CrystalDiskMark showed random read swings narrowing from 15-80MB/s down to a steady 50-65MB/s, and the freezes totally vanished. Idle power draw went up slightly, but I don't care as long as the game is smooth. SSD temps stayed at 45-55℃. Backed up the driver config just in case.
