Why does my Great Wall GW3300 crash in Tomb Raider?
My drive temps were hitting 72-78℃ in a scary short window, and the frequent random crashes were making me seriously anxious. With only 512GB, the Great Wall GW3300's dynamic SLC cache fills up way too fast when handling modern game assets, causing write speeds to plummet from 3000MB/s to around 400MB/s. I desperately tried clearing system temp files to free up space, but it did absolutely nothing for the write speeds, and the crashes kept happening. I eventually manually set a fixed 16GB page file and moved it to a separate high-speed partition, while enabling 4K alignment verification in the BIOS. CrystalDiskMark showed random write latency dropping from 22ms to 12-15ms, and the crashes stopped entirely. I did mess up the first time and used an incompatible partition format which prevented Windows from booting, but a quick reformat to NTFS solved it. Temps now sit stable at 42-51℃. 3DMark storage stress tests confirm it's rock steady now.
