How to fix the bandwidth bottleneck on the Intel 760P 1TB?
Slinging through Manhattan at high speed was ruined by 0.1-second freezes that killed the momentum. The Intel 760P 1TB was hitting its ceiling at 1.8GB/s - 2.1GB/s, causing I/O queues to pile up and frame times to spike from 11ms to 45ms. I tried lowering the resolution, but while the FPS went up, the hitches remained—proving the GPU wasn't the problem. I moved the virtual memory (page file) off the C drive to a separate high-speed partition and locked it at a fixed 16GB to stop the disk overhead from constant resizing. In RTSS, the frame time variance tightened to 12ms - 16ms, and the swinging finally felt fluid. I did get a boot error after the first fixed-size attempt, which I fixed by leaving a tiny 2GB page file on the system drive. Temps are chill at 40℃ - 46℃ with about 60% load. The frame time graphs are finally flat, though the 760P is definitely showing its age.
