Why is my Kioxia EXCERIA PLUS G4 stuttering in Wuthering Waves?
The combat is usually lightning fast with this 1TB drive, but these random micro-stutters were driving me crazy. The Kioxia EXCERIA PLUS G4 link was hitting signal interference during heavy asset streaming, causing micro-losses at peaks of 3.2-3.8GB/s. I tried forcing Gen5 in the BIOS, but that actually increased the stutter frequency—I was shocked at how unstable the high-speed mode was. I switched the link speed back to Gen4, and while I lost some theoretical bandwidth, the stability improved massively. Frame time monitoring showed the spikes dropping from 15-40ms down to a steady 12-18ms. I wasted time trying to fix this with storage drivers first, but that just slowed down my boot time for no reason. Temps are sitting pretty at 42-50℃. I set the storage mode to 'Stability Priority' in the control panel, and the interface is finally locked in.
