How to stop Intel 660P 2TB from timing out in The Hunt?
I'd be mid-stalk in the wilderness and the game would just vanish—straight to desktop with zero error messages. The Intel 660P 2TB uses QLC NAND, and once that SLC cache is exhausted during long sessions, the write speed tanks to around 100MB/s. This causes the driver to trigger a TDR timeout, and boom—crash. I tried lowering the in-game settings, but the crashes kept happening at the exact same time intervals, which made the whole thing feel like a ghost in the machine. I ended up using a third-party tool to cap the maximum write rate and ran a manual full-drive TRIM optimization to clear out invalid blocks. I checked Event Viewer, and the dreaded 4101 error codes have completely disappeared; I've since run the game for 8 hours straight without a single crash. One weird thing: after the TRIM process, my boot time increased by about 10 seconds because the controller was rebuilding the mapping table, but it settled down. Temps are a cool 38-45℃. Stability is finally where it needs to be.
