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Oscar Haze

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  1. According to Samsung Magician, it's the NVMe that's running hot — probably because it's installed right under the graphics card (but somehow warmer, GPU is idle at 44°С). But the warm NVMe is blazingly fast, while cool SATA SSD is slow. Just in case — yes, I'm sure I don't confuse the two drives, games are installed on the SATA one Also, it's occupied only by half. I looked through the mobo manual and didn't find anything about connecting HDDs or SSDs in specific order and/or slots. Overall speed is fine, but games have strange issues.
  2. Howdy, partners. Recently I bought two Samsung SSDs: the 970 EVO (250 gb NVMe used as boot drive) and the 860 EVO (500 gb SATA used for most frequently played games). The 970 works great, but I ran into issues with the 860 — specifically, in games. Synthetic benchmarks (attached somewhere below) show good results, so I assume the culprit must be software related, not a faulty drive. Firmware is up to date, SSD is connected with a cable that came with the mobo, which itself only has 6 Gb/s ports. I've been using these drives for about two weeks now, and here are the problems so far. Rainbow Six: Siege Map load times take 75–80 seconds (both 5v5 online and lone wolf vs. AI) only in fullscreen mode. This is abysmal and leads to being votekicked when other players load in under 20 seconds and (understandably) don't want to wait. Weird thing is, minimizing the game or running in windowed mode shortens loading to around 5 seconds. I have no explanation for this. Loading from an HDD (in fullscreen) takes 10–20 seconds. DOOM Eternal Loading a level from main menu takes around 20 seconds with the majority of that time being stuck on 99%. Voice lines break up and/or lag behind characters by several seconds during cutscenes; voice lines break up randomly during gameplay; music stops playing randomly where it shouldn't (like during a firefight) and may continue dozens of seconds later. My only theory is that the drive has issues streaming heavy, uncompressed audio files. Running in fullscreen or windowed doesn't make a difference. These issues don't exist with the game running off of the NVMe, and load times there are around 3–5 seconds. Didn't test on an HDD. Forza Horizon 4 During a high-speed race the gameworld stops loading in at some point, usually after around 15 seconds. Cars drive on an invisible track, most of the scenery doesn't load, while you can only see the skybox. Also, everything stops, and an in-game message appears saying that my CPU or storage are having performance issues. Doesn't happen on the NVMe or HDD. Ori and the Will of the Wisps Fast travel takes 15–20 seconds with the majority of that time spent with Ori in a spinning animation before teleporting. On an HDD this takes 8–10 seconds and the animation plays for way less time before teleporting. System specs: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, ver. 1909 (freshly installed on the 970 EVO two weeks ago) Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming rev. 1.0 (latest non-beta BIOS, all six SATA ports are 6 gb/s) Core i7 8700k locked to all-core turbo (3.7 GHz) 16 Gb DDR4 at 2666 Mhz (Kingston HyperX Fury, 2x8 Gb) EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 (manually OC'd but reset to default during testing) Corsair CX750 (worked for 7 years now) All drives run in AHCI mode, paging file is enabled and managed by Windows. Please, help me with this one, I'm at a complete loss. I scoured the internet for a solution or some clues and came up with nothing. Transferring large files to the drive happens at the expected speed of ~500 mb/s, so the issue is exclusive to games.
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