How to stop Intel 660P 2TB from skipping frames in Starfield?
There is nothing worse than being immersed in space travel only to have the screen jump forward randomly. It completely kills the vibe. The culprit was the QLC NAND on the Intel 660P; when handling 4K texture streams, the read latency was spiking between 15ms - 40ms, leaving the game engine hanging and causing those jarring frame skips. I tried lowering the texture quality in the settings, which gave me maybe 5 extra FPS, but the image looked like mud and the jumps were still there—totally disappointing. I ended up using a professional partition tool to force a 4K alignment and flashed the latest firmware to clean up the controller scheduling. Checking the RivaTuner curves, my frame times went from a jagged mess to a smooth line, settling between 10ms - 14ms. I did hit a snag where the system failed to recognize the drive twice during boot after the firmware update, but a quick reformat of the cache partition sorted it out. Temps are chilling at 38℃ - 45℃. After sprinting across three different planets, the jumps are gone and my memory temps are holding at 58℃ - 63℃.
