Solving loading freezes for Kioxia EXCERIA PRO 1TB?
Whenever I hit the city center, the game would just freeze for two seconds, which completely kills the immersion in an open world. The Kioxia EXCERIA PRO 1TB's PCIe 4.0 link was hitting 100-150ms response timeouts during heavy asset streaming because the firmware was outdated. I tried tweaking process priorities in Task Manager, but while it saved a second of loading, the freezes were still random and annoying. I finally flashed the latest official firmware and forced the PCIe link to Gen 4 in the BIOS for absolute stability. In GPU-Z, the link state stopped fluctuating, and the freezes are gone. I had a bit of a scare when the system booted slowly after the update due to a partition table glitch, but a quick disk check fixed it. Temps are sitting at 48-55℃. Stress tests confirm the read/write flow is now seamless, though the drive can still get a bit toasty.
