Why do textures flicker in Spider-Man Remastered on Gen5 SSD?
The 4K textures look insane with PCIe 5.0, but these occasional flickers are driving me crazy. The Samsung 9100 PRO 4TB has massive bandwidth, but when pushing city models at peaks of 10.2-12.5GB/s, the motherboard link became unstable, causing micro-second packet loss. I first tried forcing Gen5 mode in the BIOS, but the flickering actually got worse—a classic case of chasing speed and losing stability. I decided to drop the link speed to Gen4 mode. Even though the theoretical bandwidth is halved, the signal is way more reliable. The flickering vanished completely in my frame comparison tool, and the load delay only increased by 0.2 seconds, which is basically nothing. I tried chipset drivers first, but that just led to more random reboots. Temps are steady at 45-52℃ and the fan is whisper quiet. Switched the storage mode to stability priority and the protocol is finally locked in.
