Is the Zhitai TiPro9000 hitting a bottleneck in Forbidden West?
The loading speeds were a total joke. Even on a top-tier PCIe 4.0 drive, some complex scenes would turn into a slideshow before just hard-locking my PC. Once the SLC cache on this Zhitai drive filled up, write speeds plummeted from 7000MB/s to under 1000MB/s, which wrecked the asset streaming. I tried lowering all the graphics settings, but the game looked like a pixelated mess from ten years ago—complete masochism. I finally went into Device Manager and bumped the NVMe controller queue depth from 1024 to 2048 and forced the write cache flush policy in Windows. CrystalDiskMark showed random reads climbing from 50-60MB/s to 75-85MB/s, and the hitches stopped. I had a brief moment where the drive wouldn't be recognized after the queue change, but switching to the High Performance power plan fixed it. Temps are 45-55℃. Frame times are now a steady 5.1-6.4ms.
