How to fix loading freezes on Intel 660P 2TB in BF V?
The screen would just lock up for about 0.5 seconds the moment I hit the battlefield, and in a twitch shooter, that's basically a death sentence. Looking at the logs, the old firmware on my Intel 660P 2TB was choking on large resource decompression, with read latency spiking between 18-52ms. I tried lowering the texture quality first, which gave me maybe 10 more FPS, but that awful freeze was still there. It was clear the issue was at the storage layer. I grabbed the latest official Intel firmware update and used a partition tool to ensure a proper 4K alignment. After that, random read latency plummeted from 25ms to 10-14ms. I actually had a heart attack when the system failed to boot once during the update, but switching the BIOS storage mode from RAID back to AHCI got me back in. The drive is now rock steady at 42-48℃. After three massive matches, everything is smooth, and my RAM temps are holding at 58-63℃.
