Do I have a bottleneck with Diablo 3 and NVMe PCIe SSD?

[leonardo.blancom85]

Hello guys,here is me again. I have the following build:

CPU: Core i5 6500
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170x Gaming 3 rev 1.1
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1070 Xtreme Gaming 8Gb
NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD: Corsair MP500 120Gb (Recently installed)
SATA SSD: Kingston HyperX Fury 240 Gb
RAM: 8 Gb Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4 @2133 MHz

I recently bought a Corsair MP500 120Gb , then I installed it in the M.2 slot in the motherboard and then I did a clean Windows 10 Pro for Workstations installation.

Then I proceeded to install the drivers for the motherboard and the gpu from the manufacturers page and I installed some games like Rise of the tomb raider, for honor and Diablo 3 (I really like this game).

What I noticed while playing D3 was:

- With previous setup and all drivers and game up to date (windows installed in a small partition in HyperX Fury while D3 installed in the other partition) everything was working OK.

- With new setup and all drivers and game up to date (Windows installed in MP500 and D3 still in HyperX Fury) the game suffers from constant fps drops (or stuttering, I'm not an expert in this matter), like half-a-second freeze and then everything fluid and then another half-a-second freeze and so on.

Is this a sign of bottleneck due to the new NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD?
Is this a sign of my processor or graphic card having an issue regarding pcie lanes or something like that?
Is this problem related to another cause?

I trust your expertise can help me to understand and solve this issue.

Thank you in advance.

 

[The Original Ralph]

If you still have the original OS installation on the HyperX Fury, you might try cloning that over to the NVMe drive, to confirm there aren't any hidden settings different in the fresh installation on the NVMe drive. If you do decide to try that, be sure to wipe the NVMe drive a few times before the cloning. One time when i cloned my backup drive back to my OS drive, the same virus i was trying to overwrite, showed back up on the target OS drive - a retired microsoft engineer customer of mine alerted me to the fact that a lot of the cloning software, while cloning will read the target drive, and if if sees the same file or folder with the same date, it will skip cloning that file over, which explained how the same bug re-appeared.

EaseUS ToDo Backup has a free version that will let you clone one drive to the other - be sure to select "sector by sector"

Just a suggestion

 

[leonardo.blancom85]

If you still have the original OS installation on the HyperX Fury, you might try cloning that over to the NVMe drive, to confirm there aren't any hidden settings different in the fresh installation on the NVMe drive. If you do decide to try that, be sure to wipe the NVMe drive a few times before the cloning. One time when i cloned my backup drive back to my OS drive, the same virus i was trying to overwrite, showed back up on the target OS drive - a retired microsoft engineer customer of mine alerted me to the fact that a lot of the cloning software, while cloning will read the target drive, and if if sees the same file or folder with the same date, it will skip cloning that file over, which explained how the same bug re-appeared.

EaseUS ToDo Backup has a free version that will let you clone one drive to the other - be sure to select "sector by sector"

Just a suggestion

Thank you for your suggestion, unfortunately i deleted the old windows partition in the ssd and extended the games partition, so the original OS installation is no longer available in the HyperX Fury. Any other ideas?

 

[The Original Ralph]

i haven't looked at the cosair NVMe SSD, but on my Samsungs there's a specific samsung driver - the windows 10 NVMe driver, from reports i've seen, is not the best choice. Does Corsair offer a driver specific to their SSD?

I've just never heard of a SSD, much less a NVMe PCIe driver bottlenecking a system - and don't see how it can, especially with it's write/read speeds, it just isn't possible.

is firmware current?
here's the page with firmware installation instuctions http://www.corsair.com/en-us/force-series-mp500-120gb-m-2-ssd
and link to the corsair toolbox download http://www.corsair.com/en-us/force-series-mp500-120gb-m-2-ssd

maybe post over on the corsair forum to see what they say