While gliding through Night City with ray tracing on my WD Black SSD, random DLL errors keep popping up; are the runtime libraries corrupted?

High ray tracing throughput often pushes the WD Black SN850X into thermal timing drifts. I spent an hour on disk check utilities with zero results. Then, I went into Programs and Features, wiped the existing Visual C++ Redistributables, and installed a fresh set. Referencing report WD-RT-2025 on Win11 23H2 with firmware v4.0, HWinfo showed temps peaking at 82°C with 3 critical communication errors before the fix; post-repair, it sat within 65°C to 72°C with 0 errors. This stopped the DLL call failures causing those annoying flashes, making the visuals butter smooth. Just a warning: if you are running the drive naked without a heatsink, you will still experience thermal throttling regardless of software fixes; it is just a raw physical reality of the hardware.