Fixing Kioxia EXCERIA PLUS G4 bandwidth drops in Avowed?
Distant mountains looked like shattered glass, and the texture popping made stealth gameplay feel completely broken. My Kioxia EXCERIA PLUS G4 1TB, despite being a PCIe 5.0 drive, was hitting latency spikes of 22ms - 45ms when streaming 4K assets. I tried dropping texture quality to Medium, which helped the FPS but the popping stayed—a total letdown after spending an hour tweaking settings. I eventually dove into the BIOS and forced the M.2 slot from 'Auto' to 'Gen4', then slammed the latest chipset drivers. In AIDA64, random reads jumped from 38MB/s to a consistent 52MB/s
