Does TLOU Part I need virtual memory tweaks for Kioxia SSDs?
Every time I hit those asset-heavy city ruins, the loading bar would just hang at 99% for ten seconds, which was honestly nerve-wracking. The Kioxia EXCERIA PRO has a habit where once the SLC cache fills up, the write speed plummets from 5000MB/s to a pathetic 1200MB/s, causing a massive I/O bottleneck during swap file operations. I tried moving the game to an old SATA SSD just to test, and the load times doubled to 40 seconds, which proved the cache scheduling was the culprit. I went into Advanced System Settings, locked the virtual memory at 16GB, and disabled Windows Fast Startup. CrystalDiskMark showed random write latency dropping from 120-150ms down to 45-60ms, and the freezes finally stopped. I did notice some lag when launching background apps after locking the page file, but spreading the paging file across two physical partitions fixed that. The drive runs hot, between 55-68℃, but the disk management tool confirms the write policy is active. The input lag is gone and it feels way more responsive.
