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December 24th, 2025 19:31
XPS 8960, Windows 11 rockets SSD performance to new heights with hacked native NVMe driver
I have a Dell XPS 8960 with 2x Samsung 990 PRO with Heatsink 4TB and I noticed this article:
They talk about the following changes:
Enabling NVME native drivers in Win 11 (tried on 25H2) Works pretty good. Just open regedit. Go to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Policies\Microsoft\FeatureManagement\Overrides Add DWORD 32 Bits: “735209102”=dword:00000001 “1853569164”=dword:00000001 “156965516”=dword:00000001
Unfortunately I don't see this on my Windows 11 registry and assume, the XPS is not optimized for native NVMe drivers? Has anyone tried to optimize their 8960 using native NVMe drivers instead?
Thanks,
-Glenn
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GSDoes
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December 24th, 2025 19:37
I would love to know how to make sure my XPS 8960 uses native NVMe drivers (and boost SSD performance)...has anyone tried this?
GSDoes
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December 25th, 2025 17:17
Is it possible that the XPS 8960 image was setup using Windows 10 and as such, the NVMe drivers were not used?
Element115s4
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December 26th, 2025 17:43
I can tell you that with an XPS 8950, a fresh install of WIn11 25H2 still uses that old 2006 driver for my Samsung 990Pro w/Heatsink.
It's still so fast......not sure it's really worth the risk.
GSDoes
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January 10th, 2026 20:13
Has anyone tried these steps:
Native NVMe drivers
user_440dc9
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January 19th, 2026 05:02
Every site including this one forgets the ACTUAL primary flag:
735209102
1853569164
156965516
1176759950 (this is the primary flag that is added the same way into the same registry directory and enabling it you set it to "1")