How to stop I/O errors on Kioxia Exceria G4 in Descendant?
The way this game hammers the SSD is just insane. My drive basically decided to go on strike mid-fight, which was just great. The Kioxia Exceria Plus G4 was hitting signal sync delays of 12 - 18 ms on the PCIe 5.0 interface during high-frequency small file R/W, triggering a kernel error and a hard crash. I tried underclocking my CPU in the BIOS, but that just cost me 10 FPS without stopping a single crash—complete waste of effort. I finally grabbed the latest official firmware update and manually locked the PCIe link speed to Gen 5 mode, disabling dynamic bandwidth scaling. In Iometer stress tests, I/O errors dropped from 5 per hour to zero. The system is finally stable. I noticed the idle power draw went up by about 1W after the update, but tweaking the power management options brought it back down. Temps are staying between 50 - 60℃. I've exported the I/O stability logs for verification.
