Slow SATA Drive when playing games

lesrima88 · Apr 12, 2013

My 4 month old Custom Built pc has been working fine but for the past 2 weeks games are running extremely slow, it takes at least 20-30 minutes for a level to load in any game i try out,and when it does load textures take time to fully load while playing, other programs still open up and run fine.
These are my Specs
AMD Athlon II X4 640
8GB RAM
Crosshair V Formula Motherboard
ATI RADEON 6850 1GB
SEAGATE 1TB SATA HDD st1000dm003
Windows 7 64bit Service Park 1

this is what i have tried so far:
-Checkdsk
-Tried different SATA cables
-Tried different SATA Ports
-ReInstalled Catalyst Drivers
-Removed cmos battery
-defragmented HDD
-updated BIOS Firmware/SATA controller drivers
-Tried everytype of virus scan
-Tested HDD with HD Tune and i get an avarage of 85 mb/s transfer rate
-performed a virus scan and

this has been driving me crazy,I would really appreciate any help!

kyzarvs · Apr 12, 2013

In the olden days of XP, this would be down to PIO mode on the transfer (which can still happen with SATA even though it was an IDE feature - go figure), but on 7, I highly doubt that transfer mode still exists.

rsmith13 · Apr 12, 2013

1. How much free space do you have on the drive? (If you start running out, windows starts moving stuff around trying to find space.) 2. You migh need to defrag the drive. (I allways defrag after a new game install and I've seen brand new windows installs that needed defraging.)

Hawkeye22 · Apr 12, 2013

rsmith13 :

OP said he defragged already, but you have a valid point about the drive being near full/full. He may need to offload some files to another drive if this is the case.

lesrima88 · Apr 12, 2013

rsmith13 :

on my c:/ partition where windows is installed ,i have 9.52 GB free out of 48.72 GB and on E:/ where i store all my games,music,movies etc i have 250GB Free space left out of 882 GB , Do you think i should try and clear out some files on c:/??or 9GB is still sufficient on that particular partition?

Hawkeye22 · Apr 12, 2013

You have about 20% free space. I don't think that's the problem. With 8gig of ram, you shouldn't really need a page file, but if you disabled your pagefile, try re-enabling it. Some programs just insist on having one.

lesrima88 · Apr 14, 2013

Hawkeye22 :

Tried that,still no difference, but yesterday i decided to try out some other games, i installed bad company 2 and it run completely fine,so did half life 2 ,Call of duty 4,Grid,Darksiders 2, so i thought only older games had no problem but when i tried out gta iv it took forever to load and textures still had to load during the game, so i'm wondering why do 80% of my games have this problem but the rest don't?? can this be related to bad disk sectors on the hard drive??

Hawkeye22 · Apr 15, 2013

Yes it can. Download seatools from seagate's web site. You should be able to check the drive's SMART status and run tests. HDTune can also show SMART status. Look for reallocated sectors and current pending sectors as well as general drive health.

lesrima88 · Apr 15, 2013

Hawkeye22 :

Took a screenshot from HDTune http://

Hawkeye22 · Apr 15, 2013

The CRC can be caused by a bad sata cable. You can try replacing it. That may even fix the sector problem, but doubtful. If the new sata cable fixes the problem, you should be ok. If not, I'd recommend you replace the drive.

In the meantime, I'd make sure you have backups of any important files.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes

lesrima88 · Apr 15, 2013

Hawkeye22 :

just tried a different sata cable but still the same problem, looks like i will have to get it replaced, thanks for the help!

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