Why is Manor Lords stuttering when zooming into big cities?
When zooming into the city, I'd get these slight hitches that became way more obvious as my settlement grew. The FireCuda 530's 4K random reads were fluctuating by 12-20ms while handling thousands of small asset files, leaving the CPU idling for a split second. I tried lowering shadow quality, which gave me a measly 3 FPS boost but didn't touch the stuttering—a cautious attempt that failed miserably. I then updated the storage controller drivers and enabled the write cache merging policy in system settings. RTSS showed the frame time gaps narrowed from 16-40ms down to a smooth 12-18ms, making camera pans feel like butter. I did notice the PC took longer to shut down after the cache change, but reconfiguring the Fast Startup options sorted it out. Drive temps are 40-48℃ with a response time of 0.03ms. The performance monitor shows a flat read/write curve, though memory temps are still 58-63℃.
