Do I need to tweak Zhitai TiPro9000 for Returnal stability?
It's honestly a joke that a top-tier limited edition drive would just crash mid-game. Every time a new scene loaded, I'd get a black screen and a hard reboot. The old firmware on the Zhitai TiPro9000 was choking on DirectStorage commands, throwing 0x1E disk management errors. I tried reformatting the partition, which just wasted my time and made the game take 2 hours to reinstall—I was absolutely livid. I finally used the official tool to flash the latest firmware and aligned the partition to 4K. After four consecutive cold boots, not a single crash. Read latency is now a tight 8-12ms. I had a brief scare where the drive wasn't recognized after the flash, but a quick reseat of the M.2 slot fixed it. Temps are between 42-50℃. Backed up the partition parameters and it's finally rock solid.
