How to stop Intel 660P 2TB from slowing down in Deathloop?
When the game hits the loop reset loading screen, the speed just plummets. It was actually a bit interesting to see the QLC limits in real-time. Once the Intel 660P 2TB hit 60% capacity, the garbage collection delay kicked in, and my random reads dropped from 300MB/s to a sluggish 120MB/s. I tried a full drive wipe using a third-party tool, but that was a total waste of three hours for a measly 5% gain. I decided to try something more hard-core. I went into the registry and modified the TRIM trigger frequency and manually forced a system-level space reclamation. In CrystalDiskMark, the random read performance jumped back up to 280-310MB/s, shaving about 5 seconds off the load times. I did hit a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) after the first registry edit, but it stabilized once I changed the trigger interval from 1 hour to 4 hours. Temps are low, around 35-45℃. I switched the drive operating mode via the driver control panel and it's finally sorted.