One of the many long-standing oddities of Windows is that it has never had native support for NVMe SSDs, despite them being around for well over a decade and being the standard option for modern gaming PCs. However, this just changed recently with Microsoft rolling out native support in Windows Server 2025, and now users have discovered a way of enabling the feature in Windows 11, too, bringing leaps in performance of up to 85%. NVMe is the connection standard used by most modern M.2 SSDs, and, as you can see from our best gaming SSD guide, the ones we currently recommend for PC gamers are M.2 drives that use the NVMe standard. As such, there's potential for big gains for millions of Windows 11 PCs. There are some major caveats to this news, though.Read the full story on PCGamesN: This one Windows 11 tweak can boost SSD speed by up to 85%, but there's a catch