Fixing Kioxia EXCERIA PRO 2TB lane interference in FF16
During those massive summon fights, the game would just freeze for half a second—it was driving me crazy. The Kioxia EXCERIA PRO 2TB hits some electrical interference on certain boards in PCIe 4.0 mode, throwing 0x0000007B low-level read errors. I tried lowering the graphics settings to reduce the load, but the I/O wait stutters stayed exactly the same, which was a frustrating waste of visual quality. I went into the BIOS, forced the PCIe link speed to Gen4 instead of Auto, and updated the NVMe drivers. Monitoring with RTSS, the frame time spikes dropped from 15-40ms down to a tight 12-16ms. I had a brief issue with cold boot recognition after locking Gen4, but disabling Fast Boot in the BIOS fixed it. Drive temps are stable at 48-55℃ with speeds around 7000MB/s. Ran it for 10 hours straight with zero hitches; frame times are locked at 12-16ms.
