How to optimize Kioxia EXCERIA PLUS G4 for Elden Ring?
This was ridiculous. Right as I hit the final boss, my drive hit 100% utilization and the game turned into a slideshow. The Kioxia EXCERIA PLUS G4 1TB driver was hitting 20 - 35ms response delays during high-frequency random reads, causing frame times to jump wildly between 15ms and 40ms. I tried moving the game to another partition, but that just added 2 seconds to the load time—totally useless. I ended up using DDU to wipe the drivers and installed the latest official version, then disabled the disk indexing service in the Control Panel. In RTSS, the frame time curve finally became a straight line. I actually accidentally deleted a critical registry key while disabling indexing and couldn't boot to desktop for a while, but a system restore point saved me. Temps are stable at 52 - 58℃. I exported the logs to confirm, and the fans are humming steadily at 1400 - 1600RPM.
