How to deal with Intel 660P QLC slowdown in Marvel's Spider-Man?
Swinging through the city was a nightmare; buildings in the distance would stay blurry for seconds, which makes me seriously question Intel's QLC implementation. Once the Intel 660P 2TB hit over 70% capacity, the write speeds plummeted from 1000MB/s to around 150MB/s, choking the game's streaming assets. I tried manually deleting old files to free up space, but that was a slow, inefficient process with almost zero impact on load times. I eventually used a professional tool to force a full-drive TRIM command and left 15% of the drive as unallocated space to give the garbage collection some breathing room. In CrystalDiskMark, random reads improved from 32MB/s - 38MB/s to 45MB/s - 52MB/s. The drive actually spiked to 65℃ during the TRIM process, making the system sluggish for a bit, but it cooled down after ten minutes. Now it stays between 42℃ - 50℃. I've backed up the disk policy config, and the overall stability is finally acceptable.
