How to fix Kioxia Exceria Pro 2TB read lag in GTA VI streets?
It was a nightmare seeing distant buildings stay blurry until I was practically touching them; those texture pops are incredibly jarring in a dense city. The bottleneck was the Kioxia Exceria Pro 2TB, with random reads hovering around 40-52MB/s, meaning the engine couldn't pull high-res assets fast enough. My first instinct was to drop texture quality to Medium, which technically worked but looked like a PS3 game—absolutely not an option for me. I ended up using the official utility to flash the latest firmware and used a partition tool to re-verify the 4K alignment. In AIDA64 storage tests, the random read latency tightened up from 22-35ms down to 14-18ms, and the pop-in vanished. I did hit a snag where the drive wouldn't be recognized during boot right after the update, but a quick reseat of the M.2 slot fixed it. Temps are sitting pretty at 38-46℃. After three loops of CrystalDiskMark, the speed is where it should be, and the input response feels way more tactile.
