Witcher 3 and NVMe drives
I'm beginning to think this game is incompatible with NVMe drives due to the way the game streams data, which seems to be more optimized for SATA drives. I recently bought a Samsung 960 Pro 1TB, and although the game loads faster than ever, I'm noticing micro stutter in congested areas like Novigrad which do not appear when using my SATA based 850 Pro. I know that NVMe loads data in larger chunks than SATA, which somehow seems to conflict with the way the game streams data because when Geralt is running through Novigrad, I'm noticing micro stutter. I've tried everything to get rid of it, like changing drives, settings, doing a verify/repair install etcetera and nothing has changed.
I also made sure that my NVMe is using PCIe 3.0 4x like it's supposed to, and that my motherboard is updated to the latest UEFI. System is a 6900K Intel, Asus X99A II, 32GB DDR4 3400, Titan Xp and Samsung 960 Pro 1TB.
Out of all the games I have installed on my system, this is the only one which exhibits this behavior, so that is why I think it's just the game itself.
I'm beginning to think this game is incompatible with NVMe drives due to the way the game streams data, which seems to be more optimized for SATA drives. I recently bought a Samsung 960 Pro 1TB, and although the game loads faster than ever, I'm noticing micro stutter in congested areas like Novigrad which do not appear when using my SATA based 850 Pro. I know that NVMe loads data in larger chunks than SATA, which somehow seems to conflict with the way the game streams data because when Geralt is running through Novigrad, I'm noticing micro stutter. I've tried everything to get rid of it, like changing drives, settings, doing a verify/repair install etcetera and nothing has changed.
I also made sure that my NVMe is using PCIe 3.0 4x like it's supposed to, and that my motherboard is updated to the latest UEFI. System is a 6900K Intel, Asus X99A II, 32GB DDR4 3400, Titan Xp and Samsung 960 Pro 1TB.
Out of all the games I have installed on my system, this is the only one which exhibits this behavior, so that is why I think it's just the game itself.