How to fix Kioxia Exceria Pro 1TB save game stuttering?
Exploring the Forbidden West is great until the game just hitches for a split second during a fight—it's absolutely lethal. The problem is the Kioxia Exceria Pro's dynamic SLC cache; once about 100GB is filled, the write speed craters from 5,000MB/s to around 1,200MB/s, which blocks the game's main thread. I tried killing all background updates in Windows, but the save-game lag was still there. I eventually went into the registry to force a write-merge strategy and used a tool to clear 200GB of redundant fragments. In IOPS stress tests, random write latency dropped from 120us to 85us, and those micro-stutters are finally gone. I actually bricked my boot sequence once after messing with the registry and had to use a recovery drive to get back in. Temps are 51-58℃, and the heatsink is barely keeping up. AIDA64 confirms the write fluctuations are gone. Parameters verified.
