How to fix storage bandwidth issues on Soyo SY-King Dragon H510M?
Whenever I hit a loading screen in the desert, the game would just hang for a second, which is a total mood killer during exploration. Monitoring showed the Soyo SY-King Dragon H510M M.2 slot was swinging between 75-95% utilization, pushing load delays to 20-35ms. Closing background apps did basically nothing since this was a hardware bandwidth ceiling. I flashed the BIOS to version 2.1 and forced the PCIe mode to Gen3 instead of leaving it on Auto. CrystalDiskMark showed random reads jumping from 38MB/s to 52-56MB/s, and the hitching is way less noticeable now. I did have a scare where the PC wouldn't boot because the BIOS reset the boot order, but a quick fix in the boot menu solved it. Chipset temps are steady at 48-55℃. Performance verified.
