How to stabilize Kioxia Exceria PRO 1TB reads in Starfield?
Every time I jump to a new planet, the game just freezes at 82% on the loading screen, and the whole system locks up, forcing a hard reboot. I was stressing out when I saw the random read latency on the Kioxia Exceria PRO 1TB spike to 190-260ms under load, which is way outside the norm. I tried enabling Fast Boot in the BIOS, but that just led to an immediate BSOD after hitting the desktop, which was a total meltdown moment. I eventually gave up on automatic management and manually locked the Windows page file to a static 16GB range and disabled the drive's power-saving sleep mode. In AIDA64 stress tests, the read latency stayed clamped between 85-115ms, and the freezes stopped. To be fair, the game actually takes about 2 seconds longer to launch now, but I'll take that small hit for absolute stability. The VRM temps are sitting at 52-58℃ with fans spinning at 2100-2500 RPM. Checked the system logs and the storage checksum errors are gone; the runtime settings are locked.
