How to stop texture popping in The Witcher Remake?
The lush foliage would suddenly turn into these hideous, glitchy blocks of color, which is a total distraction during combat. Even though the Fanxiang S910PRO 2TB PCIe 5.0 hits sequential reads over 10GB/s, the random read latency was jumping erratically between 45-62ns. My first instinct was to force the PCIe mode to 5.0 in the BIOS, but that just led to a loop of BSODs, which was honestly soul-crushing. I eventually tracked down the 2.1.4 firmware update and nudged the motherboard PCIe slot voltage to a stable 1.05V. In AIDA64 benchmarks, random reads climbed from 82MB/s to a solid 115-128MB/s, and the texture popping vanished. I did notice the heatsink hitting 68-74℃ after the update, and I was terrified of thermal throttling. I had to tweak my case airflow, bumping intake by 20% to keep it at 58-62℃. System logs now show zero transmission errors, and the drive finally feels reliable.
