How to fix FireCuda 530 scheduling issues in Zenless Zone Zero?
Fighting in the city streets was a mess—my FPS was bouncing between 80 and 50, which is just unacceptable for a game like this. The FireCuda 530 controller was spiking between 3.2-4.8GHz, causing data to migrate frantically between channels. I tried 'Ultimate Performance' mode in Windows, but the drive just cooked itself to 78℃ while the FPS still swung—I was honestly furious. I went into BIOS $\rightarrow$ Power Management and forced the PCIe power limit to High Performance and disabled the L1.2 low-power state. In OCCT storage stress tests, reads stabilized at 6500MB/s and frame times tightened to 16-22ms. I had two random restarts early on, but a slight +0.02V voltage offset settled it. Temps are now 62-68℃ with fans at 2000 RPM. I used a BIOS export tool to back up the settings, and the scheduling is finally locked in.
