Intel 760P 512GB storage scheduling issues in Neverness
Every time I tried to enter the busy shopping districts, the screen would just go dead for two seconds. That kind of anxiety from storage bottlenecks is a nightmare in a fast-paced game. My Intel 760P 512GB only had 15% free space left, which caused the system to hit extreme latency spikes of 80-110ms during texture swaps. I tried clearing temp files first, but even after freeing 20GB, the memory page error rate stayed above 15%. It was clear that surface-level cleaning wasn't going to cut it. I manually locked my virtual memory to 16GB on a separate partition and updated to the Intel Storage Driver v19.1.0. Resource Monitor showed disk active time dropping from a suffocating 95% to around 60%, and the freezes mostly vanished. I did notice a slight delay when launching some background apps right after the change, but switching the power plan to High Performance cleared that up. Drive temps are sitting between 40-48℃ with load fluctuations around 30-50%. Performance analyzer confirms the overflow is gone, and the input lag is finally gone.
