Is the Intel 660P 2TB causing frame drops in Like a Dragon Ishin?
The game was practically freezing whenever I entered the Kyoto streets. My monitoring tools showed storage utilization pegged at 88-94% with wild swings in random read latency. I tried the classic 'defrag' move first, but that was a waste of time—read speeds didn't budge, and my boot time actually got worse. It felt completely powerless against a hardware bottleneck. I decided to go deeper and flashed the storage controller to the latest stable driver and flipped my power plan from Balanced to Ultimate Performance. In the sensor logs, random read latency dropped from 2.5-4.8ms to a tight 1.1-1.8ms, and frame times stabilized from 19.2-28.4ms to 13.5-16.2ms. I actually tried lowering the resolution at first, but that just underloaded the GPU and caused different stutters. After three reboots and a full power plan recalibration, I finally hit the sweet spot. The drive still runs hot at 62-68℃ in peak scenes, but the fluidity is back. I ran a stress test and confirmed the storage isn't blocking the pipeline anymore, with memory temps sitting at 58-63℃.
