How to fix Kioxia Exceria Plus G4 stuttering in Once Human?
Whenever I placed a bunch of building components, the game would just hitch. It's a small thing, but in a survival game, it's incredibly distracting. The default drivers for the Kioxia Exceria Plus G4 were struggling with fragmented files, causing random read latency to bounce between 18-35ms. I tried lowering texture quality, which helped the FPS but didn't touch the loading stutters—it was clearly a storage scheduling problem. I updated to the latest NVMe driver and set the 'Turn off hard disk after' setting to 0 in the Windows power plan. RivaTuner showed the frame time spikes (16-42ms) finally settling into a smooth 12-15ms range. I actually messed up my boot partition during the driver update and had to rebuild the BCD, which was a total headache. Now the drive stays at 48-56℃ and the motherboard core is around 50-55℃. After four hours of gameplay, the lag is gone, though the drive can still hit 58-63℃ under stress.
