How to stop WD SN850X 2TB I/O blocking in Dragon's Dogma 2?
The save mechanism in this game is a joke; every autosave feels like a synthetic stress test for my SSD. Even with the SN850X 2TB, I/O wait times were hitting 15-22ms when handling those tiny 4K files. I tried moving the game to a different partition, but the freezes persisted, which made me realize it was a system-level scheduling mess. I went into the registry, killed the Search Indexing service, and recalibrated the partition alignment to 4KB. Using DiskSpd, I saw random write IOPS climb from 120K to 165K, and the save stutter dropped from 2s to about 0.5s. At first, searching for folders became painfully slow, so I had to add the game directory to the exclusion list. Drive temps are between 48-55℃ with load around 30%. Case fans are humming at 1400-1600RPM, but at least the game doesn't hang.
