Is the Intel 760P 2TB causing texture pop-in in AC Shadows?
The distant mountains looked like broken shards of glass, and the texture popping made stealth gameplay feel completely janky. Looking at the telemetry, the Intel 760P 2TB—being an older NVMe—was hitting massive latency spikes of 18ms - 42ms when streaming 4K assets. I tried dropping texture quality to Medium, which stopped the FPS drops but didn't fix the missing textures; it was a total letdown. I finally dove into the BIOS and forced the M.2 slot from 'Auto' to 'Gen3', then slammed the latest Intel chipset drivers. AIDA64 tests showed random reads jumping from 32MB/s to