Is my MSI PRO B760M-A causing slow loads in TLOU 2?
The loading times in this game were so long I could literally go brew a pot of coffee; it's a joke for a PC port. My MSI PRO B760M-A WIFI DDR4 II M.2 slot was having some weird bandwidth drop, where read speeds plummeted from 5000MB/s to a pathetic 1200-1500MB/s, causing black screens during transitions. I tried swapping the M.2 slot, but it didn't help and I even had a couple of drive disconnects—it was pure psychological torture. I ended up forcing the latest Intel Chipset Beta drivers and locked the PCIe mode to Gen4 in the BIOS. CrystalDiskMark showed my random 4K reads jumping from 42MB/s to 65-71MB/s, cutting load times nearly in half. I wasted an hour disabling Windows Fast Startup first, which did absolutely nothing. SSD temps are now 48-56℃ and the southbridge is at 52-58℃. I've exported the I/O logs to confirm the latency is gone.
