With Shader Cache Size disabled in NVIDIA Control Panel, the driver walks
the whole system drive inside D3D12CreateDevice (traced by the reporter
to NvMemMapStoragex.dll!TotalDiskUsage), before the window's first
frame; Driver Default fixes it (confirmed in #374, PhotoCraft too). The
launch-argument walk found on the way was fixed in #394.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01912WaK6Rmew3wxZuPyX7E8