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wyldbillp · Jun 1, 2013

hi ya'll...seems my hdd is going south its a WDC5000aaks 500gb 7200rpm sata II 3.0gps on a Asus M5A78L-M LX mobo with a AMD x3 450 3.2ghz i play lord of the rings online and in the past say 4mos the game has slowed way down,i know its a very graphically intense game so i checked my hdd with HD Tuneup,it says its ok but the transfer rate is 131mps max and 1.5mps min thats a far cry from 3.0gps...WOW and the program says its 'OK' health wise...can anyone give me any input on this? oh and im maxed out on mem at 8gb.

thnx in advance

scout_03 · Jun 1, 2013

use the dld from wd to test your hdd and when was the last time your did cokies and temp files clean up also made a full defrag of the drive ?

wyldbillp · Jun 3, 2013

well i run a virus chk mon 1:00a.m. and defrag on wed 1:00a.m. the cookies and temps ive done recently but will do again and i will dwnld and use the WD utility

GhislainG · Jun 3, 2013

The drive has a 300 MB/s interface, but its transfer rate is much lower than that when it has to read data from the platters. How busy is the HDD while playing the game?

wyldbillp · Jun 4, 2013

well its always being accessed cuz of the textures of the scenery...just cant keep upo with gameplay

scout_03 · Jun 4, 2013

what happens if you lower the settings of the game not playing at full spesc all the time .

wyldbillp · Jun 5, 2013

scout_03 :

seems to run a little better,tho it still 'hitches' a little and dont look near as good

mebe should go with video card instead my current is a geforce 8400gs

Trent Quan-Sing · Jun 5, 2013

wyldbillp,

The HDD has very little to do with the inner workings on any game.
Other than initial loading and any data changes or renewal.

Once the bulk of data is loaded into memory the hard drive does very little.

If you are concerned about your hard drive you should run some pre-boot tools to test such as WD data lifegaurd and Seagates: Seatools desktop or Seatools DOS to scan the surface of your drive for bad sectors.

You might want to try looking toward your Ram speed and graphics capacity and clock speed.
your Ram may be 8GB but if its only 1333MHz then its quite low quality. If your ram has any issues or your graphics card is overheating it can cause slower speeds.
Even if your ram is high speed such as 1600MHz and above you need to make sure is been set to the correct speed in BIOS.

In my technical opinion you should invest in a solid state drive drive for any gaming application to ensure the smalles amount of load times.

GhislainG · Jun 5, 2013

wyldbillp :

Upgrading the video certainly won't hurt.

wyldbillp · Jun 5, 2013

Trent Quan-Sing :

wyldbillp,
thankx all of you for your suggestions

The HDD has very little to do with the inner workings on any game.
Other than initial loading and any data changes or renewal.

Once the bulk of data is loaded into memory the hard drive does very little.

If you are concerned about your hard drive you should run some pre-boot tools to test such as WD data lifegaurd and Seagates: Seatools desktop or Seatools DOS to scan the surface of your drive for bad sectors.

You might want to try looking toward your Ram speed and graphics capacity and clock speed.
your Ram may be 8GB but if its only 1333MHz then its quite low quality. If your ram has any issues or your graphics card is overheating it can cause slower speeds.
Even if your ram is high speed such as 1600MHz and above you need to make sure is been set to the correct speed in BIOS.

In my technical opinion you should invest in a solid state drive drive for any gaming application to ensure the smalles amount of load times.

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