Why does Intel 760P 512GB slow down during Mass Effect loads?
Watching that loading circle spin forever was honestly testing my sanity. Once the SLC cache on the Intel 760P 512GB gets filled with temp files, the write speed collapses from 3000MB/s to around 800MB/s—it's a complete joke. I started by cleaning out system temp folders, but that only saved me 0.2 seconds, which felt like a slap in the face. I finally installed the latest vendor NVMe drivers, killed unnecessary indexing services in Windows Disk Management, and switched the write cache policy to forced flushing. CrystalDiskMark showed random 4K reads improving from 42-50MB/s to 58-65MB/s. I did run into a problem where searching for files became sluggish after disabling indexing, so I had to manually re-index my core folders. Temps are okay, between 42-50℃. I exported all the latency logs via a performance analyzer, and frame times are now stable at 5.1-6.4ms, though the drive still feels dated for 2026 titles.
