How to optimize Zhitai TiPro9000 for Project Orion textures?
The texture load in this game is an absolute SSD killer. Every time I flicked the camera, the walls would flicker like a broken CRT monitor. The Zhitai TiPro9000's low-power state switching was adding 18-30ms of latency to the 4K texture stream, leaving gaps in the render pipeline. I tried lowering texture quality in the NVIDIA panel, but the game looked like it was smeared in Vaseline—totally unacceptable. I went into Power Management, killed all 'Fast Startup' and power-saving modes for the drive, and updated the NVMe drivers. Using RTSS, I saw frame times collapse from a wild 15-48ms swing down to a tight 12-18ms. Disabling power saving bumped the idle temp by 4℃, so I had to tweak my fan curve to keep it at 48℃. Reads are now steady at 6500-7000MB/s. I exported the I/O logs to double-check, and the fan speed is holding at 1400-1600RPM. It's finally playable.
