How to speed up loading times on ASRock H310CM-ITX in Banishers?
Staring at that loading bar for an eternity is pure torture in a modern game. The disk controller on the ASRock H310CM-ITX was struggling with fragmented assets, with random read speeds hitting a pathetic 0.5-1.2MB/s, causing the I/O queue to just pile up. I tried running a disk defrag, which was a joke—it actually added 15 seconds to the load time. I finally checked the BIOS to ensure AHCI was on and then messed with the registry to set the game's SSD to the highest response priority. CrystalDiskMark showed 4K reads jumping from 1.1MB/s to 2.7MB/s, and load times dropped from 52 seconds to 26 seconds. I actually broke the boot sequence for a second after the first registry edit and had to reset the default boot order to get back in. Now the drive stays between 35-42℃. I exported the registry tweaks to a backup file just in case, and the drive temp is holding steady at 35-42℃.
