How to push Zhitai TiPro9000 1TB I/O performance in Expeditions: Rome?
Switching campaign views would occasionally cause these jarring hitches that totally kill the immersion of a strategy game. The Zhitai TiPro9000 1TB was struggling with fragmented resources, with response times swinging between 12-30ms. I tried enabling 'Game Mode' in Windows, but that's just a software toggle and did absolutely nothing for the underlying I/O blockage. I installed the latest NVMe drivers and changed the write caching policy to 'Force Flush' in Device Manager. The RivaTuner frame time graph showed the peaks drop from 42ms to a tight 14-18ms. My inputs feel w
