How to stop Kioxia EXCERIA PLUS G4 stuttering in Manor Lords?
As my manor grew, save load times ballooned from 5 seconds to 20, which was honestly stressing me out. The Kioxia EXCERIA PLUS G4's dynamic SLC cache fills up fast, and once it does, write speeds crater from 5000MB/s to about 1200MB/s, killing the asset streaming. I tried disabling Windows Indexing, which saved me a measly 2% CPU but did nothing for the speed—just a total waste of time. I eventually went into Device Manager, forced the write cache flushing policy, and moved the page file to a separate non-system partition. Random 4K read latency dropped from 45-60ms down to 22-31ms, and the loading felt instant. I did lose some temp files during a power flicker after changing the policy, so I had to get a UPS to feel safe. Temps stay between 42-55℃ with the heatsink. The in-game performance overlay confirms the load times are slashed, and the settings are locked in.
