How to optimize Intel 760P streaming for Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden?
When sprinting through the forest scenes, the random read performance of this aging Intel 760P just couldn't keep up. The excitement of the game was killed by periodic micro-stutters caused by IO response times sitting at 15-22ms. I tried defragging it at first, which is obviously pointless for an SSD and gave me zero gains. I then went into the BIOS, completely disabled the old SATA modes, and forced AHCI optimization, while moving the Windows virtual memory (pagefile) specifically to this drive. Initially, this actually slowed down my system boot, but after I disabled Windows Defender's real-time scanning for the game folder, the map stuttering vanished. The drive stays quite cool, between 38-44℃. Checking Resource Monitor, the 'Highest Active Time' percentage has dropped significantly, meaning the IO bottleneck is finally cleared. It's a budget drive, so don't expect miracles.
