Does Kioxia EXCERIA G4 need PCIe 4.0 for Palworld stability?
It's honestly a joke that a game with these graphics can stutter this hard. The Kioxia EXCERIA G4's PCIe 5.0 link is incredibly flaky on certain motherboards, triggering constant data retransmits that tanked my 0.1% lows to 10 FPS. I tried updating the BIOS to the latest version to force it to work, but it didn't stop the lag and actually added 10 seconds to my boot time—the frustration was real. I finally gave up and forced the M.2 slot to Gen 4 in the BIOS. Using a frame time analyzer, my minimums jumped from 10 FPS to 45 FPS, and the game finally feels like it's running on a modern PC. I actually thought it didn't work at first, but after three restarts and a 30-minute session, I confirmed it was stable. Temps are sitting at 45-51℃ with speeds steady at 7000MB/s. Ran four loops of AIDA64 and got zero checksum errors. All stress test logs are exported and clean.
