How to fix Intel 760P bandwidth bottlenecks in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2?
This drive is absolutely struggling with an open world of this scale. My minimums were tanking to 20 FPS, and the game looked like a slideshow—it was honestly pathetic. The Intel 760P's random read/write speeds just can't keep up with the massive asynchronous load requests of modern games, leaving my CPU idling while waiting for data. I tried dropping the graphics settings to low, but while the average FPS went up, the stutters were still there, which was a joke. I eventually manually moved the virtual memory to a high-speed partition on the SSD and locked the size at 32GB, while disabling the system's Superfetch indexing. In RTSS, my 1% lows climbed from 20 FPS back up to 32 FPS, and the frequency of the drops plummeted. I did run into two Blue Screens of Death due to disk write errors right after the change, but reformatting the page file stabilized everything. The SSD stays around 40-46℃. I've exported the I/O latency data via a performance analyzer, and the bandwidth is finally usable.
