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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.

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ezoe 5d 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?

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TiredOfLife

I am guessing that like ntfs it's a huge legacy spaghetty codebase that nobody understands and thus doesn't want to touch