My Samsung 9100 PRO PCIe 5.0 keeps crashing during scene loads in Horizon, is this a driver error?

The amount of data this game pushes is insane, and while my drive is blisteringly fast, it kept crashing right at the loading screen, which was beyond frustrating. It turns out the PCIe 5.0 power management states in the older firmware were buggy, triggering a 0x0000007E hardware interrupt error during peak bandwidth bursts. I tried lowering the graphics settings, but that didn't stop the crashes—it just made the loading screens take longer, which was a complete waste of my time. I used the official tool to flash the latest firmware and went into the BIOS to change the PCIe slot power management from Auto to Disabled. After that, the error codes in Event Viewer vanished, and I've played for six hours straight without a single crash. The drive did run about 5℃ hotter right after the update, but I repositioned the heatsink to fix the airflow. Now it's a steady 52-58℃ with read speeds hitting 12-14 GB/s. I took a system snapshot of these settings just in case, but it feels totally stable now.