Is the Kioxia EXCERIA PRO 1TB causing BF5 to freeze?
Every time I tried to enter a dense urban map, the game would just go dead for two seconds. That kind of storage latency is absolute torture in a fast-paced shooter. The Kioxia EXCERIA PRO 1TB was hitting extreme random read latencies of 80-110ms when handling fragmented files, meaning the assets couldn't keep up with the renderer. I started by clearing system temp files to free up space, but even with 50GB free, the memory page error rate stayed above 12%. It was a wake-up call that I needed a low-level driver fix. I installed the latest NVMe drivers and enabled the forced write cache flush policy in Windows Performance Options. In Resource Monitor, disk active time dropped from 92% to around 58%, and the freezing during scene swaps mostly disappeared. I did run into a slight delay during shutdown after enabling the cache, but a quick tweak to the power plan sorted it. Temps are sitting at 42-50℃ with load fluctuations between 40-60%. Performance analyzer confirms the I/O bottleneck is gone, and the input feels way more responsive.
