Fixing Kioxia Exceria Pro 2TB storage crashes in The Witcher Remake

Using a top-tier PCIe 4.0 drive only to have it crash during a loading screen is just laughable. The Kioxia Exceria Pro 2TB was hitting a wall where the motherboard's PCIe lane voltage would dip around 0.9V during massive asset pulls, triggering a controller checksum error and a full system crash. I tried limiting the CPU core count in Windows, which stopped the crashes but slowed loading times by half—a completely useless trade-off. I went into the BIOS, forced the PCIe link speed to Gen4 instead of 'Auto', and added a +0.02V offset to the PCIe voltage. After four loops of CrystalDiskMark, the 4 errors per hour dropped to zero. The SSD temp spiked to 72℃ after the voltage bump, so I had to install the OEM heatsink and tweak the fan curve to get it down to 58-64℃. CPU temps sat at 68-74℃. Backed up the config, and it's finally stable.
Category:Overclocking Settings Last updated:May 11, 2026 9:52 PM