Why is my Fanxiang S910Max stuttering in Mass Effect?
Whenever I hit fast travel between systems, the loading bar always hangs at 85% for about half a second, which completely kills the immersion. The issue is that once the Fanxiang S910Max 1TB's dynamic SLC cache fills up, the random read speeds tank from 10,000MB/s to below 1,500MB/s, causing a massive bottleneck in resource streaming. I initially tried bumping my virtual memory up to 32GB, but that actually made things worse by increasing read/write conflicts during heavy asset loads—a total nightmare. I eventually dove into Device Manager and pushed the NVMe controller queue depth from the default 1024 up to 2048, while disabling the Windows write-cache flushing policy. Testing in CrystalDiskMark showed 4K random reads jumping from 45-52MB/s to 68-75MB/s, shaving about 3 seconds off load times. I did hit a snag where the drive wouldn't be recognized for a moment after the first tweak, but switching my power plan from Balanced to High Performance fixed it. Temps stayed between 52-61℃. Confirmed the flow efficiency via the performance monitor and saved the config.
