Fixing Kioxia EXCERIA PRO 2TB loading hangs in Rome
It's honestly wild that an old game can make a PCIe 4.0 drive stutter. While loading the Rome campaign maps, my read speeds were bouncing between 500MB/s and 5,000MB/s like a heart monitor. This caused the loading bar to just hang at 45% for thirty seconds—absolutely ridiculous. I tried enabling write caching in Windows to force it through, but that just led to two full system deadlocks, which was a complete nightmare. I eventually nuked the drive, performed a fresh partition with strict 4K alignment, and optimized the NTFS format for larger files. In CrystalDiskMark, seque
