Comment on Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation

kescusay@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Using this driver, however, is fraught with risks. Not all NVMe SSDs support it, and if incompatible, it could break Windows 11 boot.

  Probably why it isn’t standard, especially since there’s a driver that does work even if it’s suboptimal.

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  • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And obviously, there’s been no possible way to try loading the modern driver and if that fails, falling back to the legacy one.

    This is once again Microsoft refusing to improve performance, because that doesn’t directly increase profits.

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    • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s fair. I’m certainly not one to defend msoft, nor do I really have the technical knowledge to rebut. Is it possible that ‘trying’ the driver as you suggested could damage the drive or corrupt data? Just wondering if there’s a legitimate reason they wouldn’t go for a seemingly easy win aside from being a generally dumb organization.

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      • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There’s always the option of gathering device info first, then using the appropriate driver. Either the SSD is in a “known supported models” list, or it reports support for whatever feature the new driver needs.

        It’s technically possible that straight up trying an unsupported driver can cause physical damage, but this can be avoided by carefully selecting the driver. From MS pov, they’d have to extensively test this driver on a bunch of SSDs and configurations, but it would lead to a performance improvement.

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  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So they can’t just write some probe code? It really can’t be that hard to determine if there’s support.

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  • DokPsy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If only there was a way to do a check for compatibility on the os side for a standard that has been available since before the predecessor os was released and fall back to the older driver if it fails

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