Windows 10: Update 1903 slowed down my SSD NVMe drive

I recently updated my PC to Windows 10 version 1903. I honestly was expecting some things to stop working, because it is in Microsoft's custom. Usually it comes to just turning off some services (major Windows updates tend to turn on everything again) like telemetry and other garbage. I spend some time tweaking, but it's worth to have blazing fast PC, not slowed down by anything. And then, after last update (1903) maps in the Mordhau game I play started to take very long time to load. Like 15 to 20 seconds, sometimes even half a minute. You'd say "Yeah, that's because you have installed the game on an old HDD", but that's not the case here. I have a 500 GB SSD Samsung 960 Evo NVMe which is super fast. I have installed both Windows 10 and Mordhau on it. Before the update, maps tend to load in less than 5 seconds. There were even situations when after map change I was honestly the first player on the map that has loaded in. Now, my friends with regular SATA 3 SSD drives now load to the game faster than me, which is ridiculous.


Other PC specifications doesn't really matter because the game and the drive itself run smoothly. I have no other issues. I also ran a benchmark test to see how it is performing under stress (see below) but it seems everything's fine.



I didn't format my drive for some time, so I figured that's the additional reason to do it. Maybe it will help - that's what I thought. And now I'm writing this on a PC with freshly formatted SSD drive and just installed Windows 10 version 1903. The formatting sadly didn't help. Obviously I have installed current drives for the motherboard, drive, graphic card etc.


Then I started googling and I've got scared. "Dead NVM'e drives after 1903 update" - oh boy. I ran sfc scans, check the event log but I found nothing to worry about. So where is the problem? Maybe I'm not the only one experiencing this.




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Update 1903 slowed down my SSD NVMe drive

I recently updated my PC to Windows 10 version 1903. I honestly was expecting some things to stop working, because it is in Microsoft's custom. Usually it comes to just turning off some services (major Windows updates tend to turn on everything again) like
telemetry and other garbage. I spend some time tweaking, but it's worth to have blazing fast PC, not slowed down by anything. And then, after last update (1903) maps in the

Mordhau game I play started to take very long time to load. Like 15 to 20 seconds, sometimes even half a minute. You'd say "Yeah, that's because you have installed the game on an old HDD", but that's not the case here. I have a 500 GB SSD Samsung 960 Evo
NVMe which is super fast. I have installed both Windows 10 and Mordhau on it. Before the update, maps tend to load in less than 5 seconds. There were even situations when after map change I was honestly the first player on the map that has loaded in. Now,
my friends with regular SATA 3 SSD drives now load to the game faster than me, which is ridiculous.

Other PC specifications doesn't really matter because the game and the drive itself run smoothly. I have no other issues. I also ran a benchmark test to see how it is performing under stress (see below) but it seems everything's fine.

I didn't format my drive for some time, so I figured that's the additional reason to do it. Maybe it will help - that's what I thought. And now I'm writing this on a PC with freshly formatted SSD drive and just installed Windows 10 version 1903. The formatting
sadly didn't help. Obviously I have installed current drives for the motherboard, drive, graphic card etc.

Then I started googling and I've got scared. "Dead NVM'e drives after 1903 update" - oh boy. I ran sfc scans, check the event log but I found nothing to worry about. So where is the problem? Maybe I'm not the only one experiencing this.

 

NVME SSD

Tried this, and windows still didn't see the nvme ssd. It was a brand new nvme ssd right out of the box. Nothing works.

 

Windows 10 Home 1903 update hangs on restartwith Samsung NVME SSD

Hi,

Tried many times to do this update from 1803. Have tried all suggested methods incl media creation tool etc. The laptop has a Samsung 960 evo NVME SSD in place, each time I try to apply 1903 the update process hangs on the second restart with just the Gigabtye
logo with no spinning dots. If I force shutdown via power off and power on then the update process continues, completes and eventually allows me to logon like normal.

The end result is that my system can be shutdown with power off then powered back on and lets me logon however if I do a restart then I get the same behaviour, that is it seems to shutdown Ok but on the way back up it hangs with the Gigabyte logo with no
dots.

I've also noted that the update does not load the NVME driver for the SSD which I did manually.

So my research suggests that virus software, connected usb devices may cause issues with 1903, so I uninstalled the virus software and removed all attached usb devices with the same result.

It seems that 1903 does something to the efi boot partition that creates this issue, so I tried to restore the EFI partition from 1803 and the end result was that the system will restart OK but this is not a long term solution, however proves a point that
the 1903 update does not like my SSD.

So my last try to get through this update was that I migrated the SSD back to the original Hitachi HDD then did the update and the result was that everything worked fine, that is no hangs during the update process and when done the restart option works fine.

So then I migrated the updated system from my working HDD back to the Samsung 960 evo NVME SSD and the restart option hanging issue returned.

So my conclusion is that windows update 1903 is incompatible with the Samsung 960 evo PCie NVME device and /or its driver.

Hope someone has some ideas to get over this annoying problem.