Tuning storage scheduling for Galax H310M in Ghost of Tsushima
Every time I ride into a new zone, the frame rate plummets from 60 down to 20 FPS, which is just heartbreaking given how beautiful the game looks. The bus bandwidth on the aging Galax H310M Warrior D4 is struggling with modern 4K texture streams, with response times swinging between 15-40ms. I tried defragging the drive first, which I quickly realized was a total joke for an NVMe SSD and just added unnecessary wear—that whole process was honestly just stressful. I eventually set the virtual memory to a manual 32GB on a dedicated fast SSD partition and killed the Windows Indexing service. RTSS showed the frame time spikes dropping from 45ms to a manageable 18-22ms. The only downside was that system search became sluggish, but I fixed that by adding the game folder to the exclusion list. CPU temps are sitting at 68-75℃. The resource loading lag is way down, and the controls finally feel responsive to my fingertips.
