How to fix game freezes on Zhitai TiPro9000 4TB in Star Wars Outlaws?
Every time I hit the city, the game just locks up for 4-6 seconds, and I honestly wanted to throw my keyboard. The Zhitai TiPro9000 4TB was choking on concurrent I/O requests, with response times spiking over 110ms, which just hung the engine. I tried moving the game to another NVMe to see if it was the drive, and the fluctuations were still there, which told me the 9000 series desperately needed a firmware update. I flashed the latest official firmware and switched the Windows disk scheduling to Fair Scheduling. In Iometer, my random write latency dropped from 130-160ms down to 48-62ms, and the city freezes are totally gone. I almost bricked the drive when a power flicker hit during the flash, but a backup PSU saved me. The drive is sitting at 42-50℃ with a load between 65-80%. I backed up the driver config and scheduler settings, and the input response finally feels instant.
