How to fix loading stutters on Intel 760P 1TB NVMe?
When exploring deep ruins, the read/write pressure on my Intel 760P 1TB NVMe spiked, causing these annoying stepped stutters. I noticed that during 4K random reads, latency was jumping wildly between 18ms - 32ms, which totally broke the game's frame sync. I first tried enabling write cache flushing in Windows, but that was a nightmare; it didn't stop the freezes and actually caused a 2-second hang every time I saved. I was so confused. Then I opened the GamePP NVMe Queue Depth Config and bumped the queue depth from 32 to 128 while tweaking the IRQ priority. In CrystalDiskMark, my random read speeds jumped from 35-42 MB/s to 58-65 MB/s, and scene transitions became way more fluid.
