How to speed up Fortnite loads on Kioxia EXCERIA PLUS G4 2TB?
Every time I jumped into a match, the loading screen felt like it was trolling me—just an endless wait that was honestly ridiculous. Even though the EXCERIA PLUS G4 has great specs, I found the addressing latency on my 2TB partition was bouncing between 115-140ns, creating a total gap in resource scheduling. I tried running a disk defrag first, which was a complete waste of time and just added unnecessary wear to the NAND—absolute rookie mistake. I ended up wiping the OEM drivers and switched to the generic NVMe 1.4 protocol driver, then enabled Re-size BAR in the BIOS. After another CrystalDiskMark run, sequential reads climbed from 6000MB/s to 9000-9500MB/s, and my load times dropped from 15 seconds to about 6. I did notice that Re-size BAR made my boot time 2 seconds slower at first, but a chipset driver update cleared that right up. Drive temps are sitting at 58-64℃ with fans at 1600 RPM. I exported the latency logs and the fan speed is now rock steady at 1400-1600RPM.
