Intel 545S I/O Priority Boost
While challenging high-difficulty dungeons, the screen would stutter maddeningly every time the scene switched. I first tried running disk defragmentation, but this traditional method is meaningless for SSDs and only increased wear. I enabled the GamePP Resource Scheduler, raised the game's I/O priority to the highest, and limited background disk occupancy. Disk active time dropped from 98% to 75% per HWMonitor, I/O response hit 12-20ms via AIDA64, and sequential reads hit 560MB/s per CrystalDiskMark.
