How do I fix Zhitai TiPro9000 cache issues in Star Wars Outlaws?
The moment my ship took off for space, the loading bar would just hang at 99% for ten seconds, which is a total immersion killer. Once the Zhitai TiPro9000's dynamic SLC cache fills up, the write speed plummets from 7000 MB/s to under 1000 MB/s, creating a massive bottleneck for resource loading. I tried setting the virtual memory to half the drive's free space, but that just made the I/O conflicts worse and actually increased load times—a lesson in not blindly following random tips. I went into Device Manager, bumped the NVMe controller queue depth from 1024 to 2048, and enabled the forced write cache flush policy in system performance options. CrystalDiskMark showed 4K random reads improving from 50,0 - 60,0 MB/s to 72,0 - 80,0 MB/s, cutting load times by 40%. I had some brief drive recognition delays at first, but switching the power plan to High Performance fixed it. Temps are 42,0 - 55,0 C. Loading is finally snappy.
