Why is my WD Black SN850 1TB lagging in Spider-Man Remastered?
Whenever I'm swinging fast through the streets of New York, the distant building textures pop in with these jarring, step-like jumps, causing my frame times to swing wildly between 12-38ms. I initially tried cranking the texture quality to the absolute max, but that just choked the I/O even further, which honestly left me questioning if my drivers were just broken. I eventually pushed through by installing the latest official firmware and forcing the Windows write cache to 'flush' mode while killing the disk indexing service. In CrystalDiskMark, my random reads jumped from 62MB/s to a much steadier 88-94MB/s, and those annoying hitches during scene transitions basically vanished. I will admit, after the first cache tweak, my system froze twice during game launch, and it didn't actually stabilize until I switched my power plan to High Performance. Now, the drive sits comfortably between 48-54℃ with controller power draw around 6-8W. Checking the hardware monitor, the read curve is finally flat. Parameters saved.
