Is the Samsung 9100 PRO 2TB causing flickering in AC Shadows?
Sprinting across the rooftops of the old capital was a mess; the textures had this weird color bleeding that made me feel like my GPU was dying. The Samsung 9100 PRO 2TB has insane bandwidth, but at peak bursts of 10.2-12.5GB/s, the motherboard link was unstable, causing micro-packet loss. I tried forcing Gen5 mode in the BIOS, but that just made the flickering worse—a classic case of chasing raw speed and getting a headache instead. I eventually gave up on Gen5 and switched the link speed to Gen4. Even though the theoretical bandwidth was halved, the signal stability became rock solid. The flickering vanished completely, and loading only slowed down by about 0.2 seconds. I tried updating the chipset drivers first, but that just led to a loop of random restarts. Drive temps settled at 45-52℃, and the heatsink is doing its job. The loading curve is finally flat and predictable.
