Can I fix WD SN850X 1TB I/O blocking in Ghost of Yotei?
I couldn't believe a top-tier drive was letting my frames tank to 40 in the snow mountains; it felt like a joke. The WD SN850X 1TB has great throughput, but when handling tons of small files, the system priority was being hijacked by my background antivirus. In a moment of stupidity, I cranked the in-game settings to Ultra, which just made the stuttering worse. I finally went into Task Manager, forced the game process I/O priority to 'High', and disabled all real-time disk scanning. In the monitor, the read/write latency dropped from 35ms to a crisp 8-12ms. I did hit a brief system deadlock right after the first tweak, but a reboot and disabling 'Fast Startup' cleared it right up. The drive is running between 55-62℃, so the heatsink is definitely working. I exported the performance logs, and the scheduling is finally behaving.
