How to fix storage bottlenecks in The Hunt on B760M?
The loading bar would just hang at 99% for ten seconds; it felt like I was using a mechanical drive from the 90s. The primary M.2 slot on the Galax B760M D4 Wi-Fi was occasionally misidentifying as Gen 2, causing read speeds to plummet from 3500 MB/s to a pathetic 1600 MB/s. I tried moving the drive to the second slot, but since that runs through the chipset, latency actually climbed by 20ms—a total waste of effort. I went into the BIOS and forced the PCIe mode to Gen 3 and flashed the latest microcode firmware. CrystalDiskMark showed sequential reads bouncing back to 3420-3510 MB/s, and map loads dropped to 4 seconds. The firmware update broke my Wi-Fi driver temporarily, but a manual reinstall fixed it. SSD temps stayed between 48-54℃. I exported the I/O throughput logs to confirm the fix.
