Does virtual memory cause tearing on Seagate FireCuda 530?
It's a joke that a PCIe 4.0 drive gave me tearing that felt like it was from ten years ago. The 500GB capacity was too small for this game, causing the virtual memory to thrash constantly, creating an I/O wait variance of 18-25ms. This completely desynced the GPU output from my monitor's refresh rate. I tried Fast Sync in the drivers, but that pushed input lag over 70ms—it felt like walking through mud. I eventually went into system settings and manually locked the page file to 16GB, then used RTSS to cap the frame rate at 97% of my monitor's refresh rate. In the frame time monitor, the generation time finally settled at 8-12ms, and the tearing vanished. I actually wasted half an hour replacing three different cables thinking my monitor was broken before I realized it was a disk I/O issue. Temps are 42-50℃ with RAM usage around 12-14GB. I backed up the BIOS and system config so I don't have to do this again.
