Solving Great Wall GW3300 driver conflicts in Deathloop
The amount of data this game loads is insane. My drive is fast, but it would just crash to desktop on the loading screen—totally ridiculous. It turns out the GW3300's power management in the old firmware was buggy, triggering a 0x0000007B hardware interrupt error during high-bandwidth bursts. I tried lowering the graphics settings, but that didn't stop the crashes and just made loading take longer—a total waste of my time. I used the official tool to flash the latest firmware and disabled PCIe slot power management in the BIOS. The driver error codes in Event Viewer completely vanished, and I've played for five hours straight without a single crash. My idle temp rose by 3℃ after the firmware update, so I had to reposition my heatsink to get it back to normal. Now it's stable at 45-52℃ with read speeds at 3-5GB/s. I've backed up these settings in a system snapshot just in case.
