How to fix cache saturation on Zhitai TiPro9000 2TB?
Entering a crowded main city is a nightmare; the loading bar would just freeze at 80% for five seconds. Once the dynamic SLC cache on the Zhitai TiPro9000 2TB fills up, write speeds crash from 7,0GB/s to under 1,5GB/s, choking the asset streaming. I tried setting the virtual memory to half the remaining drive space, but that just created more I/O conflicts and actually made loading slower—a lesson in not guessing. I eventually went into Device Manager, bumped the NVMe queue depth from 1024 to 2048, and enabled the forced write cache flush policy in system performance options. CrystalDiskMark showed 4K random reads improving from 58-65MB/s to 75-82MB/s, cutting load times by 35%. I had some brief drive detection lag after the queue depth change, which disappeared after switching to the High Performance power plan. Temps are 45-55C. In-game analysis confirms faster loads, and memory temps are holding at 58-63C.
