Why is my Kioxia EXCERIA PRO lagging in Spider-Man?
While swinging through Manhattan, distant buildings would suddenly turn into blurry blobs. The loading speed was basically testing my patience, it was ridiculous. The EXCERIA PRO's PCIe 4.0 link was acting up on my board, with read speeds jumping randomly between 7000MB/s and 3200MB/s, causing 0.5-second micro-freezes. I tried turning off dynamic resolution in-game, but that just made the image clearer while the loading stayed slow as a snail—a total waste of time. I finally forced the latest chipset drivers and changed the M.2 slot from 'Auto' to 'Gen4' in the BIOS. CrystalDiskMark then showed a steady 6800-7200MB/s, and the city pops are gone. I also tried disabling Windows Fast Startup before the driver update, but that did absolutely nothing. Drive temps are sitting at 52-60℃ with a 6-8W controller draw. I exported all I/O latency logs for archiving, and my fans are humming steady at 1400-1600RPM.
