Solving Zhitai TiPro9000 read/write lag in Indiana Jones: The Ancient Circle?
While exploring the ruins, I noticed some really erratic frame time spikes—every time I hit a new zone, the game would hitch for about 0.3 seconds. The SLC cache on the Zhitai TiPro9000 was fluctuating under heavy random R/W loads, causing I/O response times to jump from 0.1ms to a massive 15ms. I tried lowering the graphics settings first, but the stutters persisted, proving it wasn't a GPU bottleneck. I updated to the latest NVMe controller drivers and disabled the Windows write-caching policy to force real-time data commits. In RivaTuner, my frame times tightened from 12-35ms down to 11-14ms, and the hitching stopped. I did notice some slight texture pop-in after the cache change, but setting the PCIe Power Management to 'Maximum Performance' fixed that. The SSD stays between 45-55℃. After three long sessions, the frame times are finally locked in at 11-14ms.
