Why does my Kioxia G4 keep stuttering in Star Wars Outlaws?
While cruising through busy space stations, my frame rate was swinging wildly between 90 and 30 FPS, making flight controls feel absolutely miserable. I initially thought it was a GPU driver glitch and wasted hours updating them, but the stuttering persisted, which was incredibly frustrating. After diving into the disk I/O load, I found that once the Kioxia Exceria Plus G4's dynamic SLC cache fills up, write speeds tank from 7000MB/s to under 1200MB/s, triggering a massive resource loading bottleneck. I decided to jump into Device Manager and bump the NVMe controller queue depth from 1024 to 2048, while enabling the forced write cache flush policy. Using HWiNFO, I saw random read latency tighten from a messy 12-28ms range down to a steady 4-9ms, and the loading smoothness improved drastically. To be honest, after the first tweak, I hit a snag where the drive had a slight recognition delay during boot, which I only fixed by switching the power plan to High Performance. The drive now sits at 46-54℃ and is rock steady. I exported this I/O config via system tools, and my frame times are now locked in at 5.1-6.4ms.
