How to fix WD Black SN850 2TB frame drops in Far Cry 7?
It's honestly ridiculous that I'm fighting my SSD while exploring the jungle. Every time I entered a new zone, the game felt like it was running in slow motion. Even though the SN850 2TB is a beast, the I/O queue depth was swinging wildly between 32-64, causing frame time spikes of 15-40ms. I tried moving the game to an old SATA drive just to see, but the loading times doubled and the stutters stayed—that was a total waste of an afternoon. I used a professional disk optimizer and set the game process I/O priority to 'High' in the system settings. My performance logs showed read latency dropping from 22ms to a crisp 8-12ms. I did hit a snag where CPU usage spiked because of system indexing, but disabling the search index fixed it. Temps are steady at 45-52℃. All the stress data is now exported and verified.
