How to improve Intel 760P 1TB performance in Ghost of Yotei?
When looking out from a snowy peak, the game has these micro-stutters that totally kill the immersion. The Intel 760P is an older NVMe, and with these modern massive asset packs, the bandwidth utilization was hitting 95-98% constantly, causing the CPU to wait. I tried increasing virtual memory to 24GB, but that just pushed the disk harder without helping the minimum frames—it made me realize I needed a different approach. I updated to the official Intel storage drivers and set the 'Turn off hard disk after' power setting to 0 to keep the link active. In AIDA64, random read performance bumped up by about 8%, and the stuttering noticeably decreased. I had a brief boot delay after the driver update, but re-syncing the BIOS boot order solved it. Temps are 40-46℃. My 1% lows went from 22 FPS up to 35 FPS.
