How to optimize Samsung 9100 PRO PCIe 5.0 for Dying Light 2?
There's nothing worse than having a perfect jump ruined by a frame drop. I checked the logs and found the NVMe bus was blocking for 0.3 seconds, causing the clock speed to tank. I'd been trying to be 'green' by using aggressive PCIe Link State Power Management, which was a huge mistake—the wake-up latency was killing my performance. I went into the BIOS, nuked all link power savings, and forced the PCIe slot to Gen 5. Now, random read/write latency is pinned at 10-15 microseconds, and frame intervals dropped from 18.4-26.1ms to 11.2-14.5ms. I tried adding more virtual memory at first, but that just caused a disk conflict nightmare. I had to move the game to a dedicated partition and realign the sectors to finally kill the stutter. This drive hits 75-80℃ under full load, but as long as you have a good cooler, the speed is insane. Switched the mode to 'Performance' in the software, and it's holding at 75-80℃.
