WHEA Fatal Hardware Failure / driver detected a controller error on /Device/RaidPort3

[End_Wokeness]

I've been fighting with this issue all day now, I have HFW installed on a Western Digital SN850X Black 4TB NVMe that is roughly 6 months old with very low write count. It's maybe 65% full. I am not having this issue with any other titles on this drive, Cyberpunk 2077 is on this drive, has DLSS 3.0 Frame Gen. I surmise that the issue is related to Direct Storage, a Windows 11 exclusive feature. Forbidden West will run for maybe 30-45 minutes before something triggers a CTD accompanied with this WHEA error. I clean re-installed the display driver to rule that out. No other game does this, this game has some new Direct Storage feature, it's nuking the drive that it's on causing this problem.

I'm on Windows 10 with the latest updates. Disk drive doesn't exceed 55c. I believe this is a serious bug related to the Direct Storage feature affecting Windows 10 machines but no-one else seems to be complaining about it yet.

[Arc]

DirectStorage is not exclusive to Win11.
Only the GPU data decompression is.

Also post exact Windows build, as "latest" no longer means what it used to.

Do you have any other game with DS ? (Ratchet & Clank, the game everybody forgot about, etc. )

[Iron|Cu!]

1. Be sure your BIOS is updated to latest version

2. Update firmware of your SSD. I think I already heard people having issues with that error on WD drives before. It was a known problem from their side. Firmware update should do the trick.

Here is a link: https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/31759/h/p2/session/L3RpbWUvMTY3MzA0OTA4Mi9nZW4vMTY3MzA0OTA4Mi9zaWQvZlVFenhNNFVQcTNwUk02TFVFM3pKNjJNNkZsRjhZNjhSWmdQM0FKTnUxMWZxeWZsMzdJcm1jcWhaNk9kbkhxYzVxcUg4NzY2dW9lb0pfX1JuaERyT1AzZndxN3VhM0ZTSHVScGtIaDZkbXdSN25Zcmk5QnN3Q2h3JTIxJTIx#subject2


I hope this helps, and I think it will :')