How to fix M.2 bandwidth bottlenecks on Colorful H610M-K?
Honestly, it's ridiculous—the asset streaming in this game was absolutely choking my H610M. While building complex houses, the storage throughput would hit a wall at 2.1GB/s, and the loading bar would just freeze at 99%, which is enough to make anyone want to throw their mouse. I wasted time trying to defrag the drive, which is a complete joke for NVMe SSDs and just adds unnecessary wear to the NAND. I eventually went for a more aggressive approach: updated the chipset drivers to the latest version and manually locked the virtual memory to a fixed 32GB to stop the OS from constantly swapping pages. CrystalDiskMark showed random read response times dropping from 65ms to around 42-48ms, and the loading hitches finally stopped. I did notice a slight delay when launching some background apps after the pagefile change, but it's a tiny price to pay for a playable game. SSD temps stayed between 45-52℃, and the fans stayed steady at 1400-1600RPM.
