TLOU Part I Frame Drops
Aerial combat in The Last of Us Part I felt jerky. RivaTuner showed frame times fluctuating wildly between 12-28ms. I tried disabling the disk controller in Device Manager, but it caused a hard crash. The Western Digital WD Black SN750 SE 1TB was suffering from driver conflicts. I used GamePP Peripheral Driver Conflict Detection to disable the RGB sync service and enable hardware encoding priority. RivaTuner confirmed frame intervals stabilized at 8-11ms. HWiNFO showed SSD temps at 67-72℃. This export of stability changed my playthrough.