How to fix write latency on a nearly full Intel 760P 512GB?
Every time a massive dinosaur brawl started, the game would just freeze and crash to desktop without warning—it was incredibly frustrating. My Intel 760P 512GB only had 15% free space left, so the garbage collection was working overtime in the background, causing write latency to swing wildly between 120-250ms. I tried using some third-party cleaners to scrap together an extra 20GB, but the crashes didn't stop, and I was starting to feel a real sense of defeat. I eventually ran a manual system-level TRIM command and used disk management to leave 10% of the drive as unallocated space for an Over-Provisioning (OP) zone. In the analysis panel, random write latency tightened up from 180ms to a stable 45-52ms, and the crashes stopped entirely. I did notice the disk usage spiked to 100% for a bit right after the TRIM, but a quick reboot fixed it. Temps are holding at 42-48℃. It's finally playable now.
