josephcsible4d ago

Microsoft blocks trick to unlock native NVMe driver, but workarounds still exist

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-blocks-the-registry-hack-trick-that-unlocked-native-nvme-performance-on-windows-11

Microsoft blocks registry trick that unlocked performance-boosting native NVMe driver on Windows 11 — workarounds still exist to enable support, however

A ViVeTool workaround still works for now.

Tom's Hardware
Show threadezoe4d ago

> The native NVMe driver (nvmedisk.sys) replaces the legacy storage path that has routed NVMe commands through a SCSI translation layer since before NVMe SSDs existed.

What? What are Microsoft doing for a decade after NVMe available to consumer grade motherboard?

Show threadkelnos

Seriously, that was my thought too. Even if we were to stretch credibility and suggest that general consumers don't care about this sort of thing, they just released this for Windows Server in the past year?

Windows really is a toy of an OS. It continues to blow my mind that people want to use it as a server OS.

Mar 24 at 7:19amWeb