How to stop the Intel 760P 2TB from lagging in PUBG?
It was brutal—buildings would just appear as blurry blobs while I was moving, which is a death sentence in a gunfight. The Intel 760P 2TB is a QLC drive, and once that SLC cache hits the limit, the write speed collapses from 2000MB/s down to a pathetic 600-900MB/s. I stupidly tried disabling the page file in system properties, which just led to a cycle of constant game crashes. After that disaster, I used a partition tool to ensure proper 4K alignment and killed the Windows Search indexing service to stop the background I/O noise. Monitoring the drive, I saw read latency shrink from 50-65ns down to 38-44ns. Interestingly, the first alignment attempt actually slowed my boot time by 3 seconds until I reconfigured the boot sector. Now the drive sits comfortably at 42-50℃ with power draw between 3.8-5.5W. After three stress test loops, the throughput is finally stable at 42-50℃.
