Is the FireCuda 530 causing stutters in Ghost of Yotei?
Every time I galloped into a new area, my frame rate would plummet from 60 FPS to a choppy 20 FPS, which is just painful when the scenery is that gorgeous. The FireCuda 530's 4K random reads were swinging between 12-35ms when handling fragmented assets, basically bottlenecking the game engine. I tried running a disk defrag out of desperation, but that's completely pointless for an NVMe drive and just adds unnecessary wear—a rookie mistake that left me feeling pretty anxious. I eventually used a partition tool to fix the 4K alignment and cranked the disk I/O priority to 'High' in the registry, while killing the Windows Indexing service. Checking RTSS, the frame time spikes dropped from 45ms down to a stable 16-22ms. The only downside was that system file searches became sluggish until I added a specific exclusion for the game folder. The drive is running cool at 42-50℃. The resource loading lag is gone, and the controller response feels way more responsive now.
