Fixing texture tearing on Seagate FireCuda 530 in Silent Hill 2
Walking through the fog, the ground textures would just rip open into black voids. I joked that the FireCuda 530 was trying to add to the horror, but it was actually just driving me insane. I tried updating GPU drivers, but the tearing stayed and started flickering—complete waste of an afternoon. I ran IOmeter for a brutal stress test and found 4K random read response times spiking over 200ms. I dove into the BIOS, switched the PCIe lane from Auto to Gen 4, and killed all power-saving modes. In the next test, response times stabilized at 0.05-0.08ms, and the tearing vanished. I accidentally disabled some peripherals after the lane change, but a quick reseat of the PCIe expansion card fixed it. Temps are steady at 48-54℃ with 70% controller load. I exported all the I/O error logs from Event Viewer for the record; the hardware is finally behaving.
