Zenless Zone Zero — Cheapest way to add 2 TB right now

Finally worked this out, so here is the write-up I wish I had found. It seems to depend heavily on region, which nobody mentions anywhere.

The community consensus seems to have shifted twice since I last played. Thanks in advance to anyone who chips in.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, give it a clean reinstall before assuming the hardware is at fault.

I went through this last month. do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

Adding to the above: it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

Report back once you have tried it.

Counterpoint: do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

Report back once you have tried it.

Same boat here. it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

Worth checking first: it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

I went through this last month. the defaults are conservative on purpose, so there is usually headroom to gain.

Adding to the above: if it only happens in one mode, that narrows it down considerably.

Quick correction to the above: region and server load matter more than most guides acknowledge.

Others may have a cleaner method.

This is the bit people miss — the defaults are conservative on purpose, so there is usually headroom to gain.

Others may have a cleaner method.

Quick correction to the above: that behaviour is intentional, even though it is poorly explained in-game.

In my testing, it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

The usual fix here is measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

Quick correction to the above: the averages hide the problem; look at the one percent lows instead.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

Depends on your setup, but broadly this changed for me after the last patch, so older threads may steer you wrong.

Counterpoint: check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

Let us know which part worked.