How to stop Zhitai TiPro9000 from throttling in FF XVI?
The read pressure on this drive is an absolute black hole. Whenever I enter a major city, my 4TB drive feels like it's being choked, with speeds diving from 7000MB/s down to 1000MB/s. Once the SLC cache on the TiPro9000 fills up during continuous loads, response times jump between 20-80ms, leaving the CPU cores idling while waiting for data. I tried closing every single browser tab in the background, but it only shaved off one second—a total joke that almost made me flip my desk. I ended up updating to the latest NVMe controller driver and forced the disk write cache flushing policy to 'On' in the advanced system settings. Monitoring via RTSS showed frame times stabilizing from a chaotic 40-110ms to a clean 15-22ms. I did notice a weird drive detection delay during boot after the update, but tweaking the BIOS Fast Boot options sorted it. Drive temps were 48-55℃ and the controller hit 62-68℃. I exported the stress test logs to archive the read/write data, with fans locked at 1400-1600RPM.
