Can NVMe driver updates fix Samsung 9100 PRO lag in Manor Lords?
Loading a save felt like the progress bar was trolling me; the fragmented waiting was absolute torture. Even though the 9100 PRO is a beast on paper, I noticed addressing latency fluctuating between 115-140ns on my 2TB partition, causing the resource stream to choke. I tried running a disk defrag, which was a joke since it's an NVMe—all I did was waste write cycles for nothing. I eventually nuked the OEM drivers and switched to the generic NVMe 1.4 protocol driver, then enabled Re-size BAR in the BIOS. CrystalDiskMark showed sequential reads jumping from 6000MB/s to a massive 11000-12000MB/s, and my load times dropped from 20 seconds to just 8. I did have a weird issue where boot times increased by 3 seconds after enabling Re-size BAR, but a fresh chipset driver install cleared that up. Drive is running at 62-68℃ with the fan at 1800 RPM. I exported the latency logs to confirm the fix.
