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Extremely weird issue with games/video.

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  • Windows 8
  • Games
October 3, 2014 9:41:47 PM

Hey guys, I'm in a pretty tough situation at the moment. I have to go to bed now, but I will check for responses in the morning. Anyway, I'll try to describe the situation in the best way I can. I recently bought some Seagate 3TB HDDs. Four of them to be exact. Not sure if it can attribute to my issues. I'll list everything I'm currently running.

Core i7 2700k
Asus Maximus V Formula
EVGA GTX780Ti X2
Corsair AX1200I
16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600
Creative ZxR Sound Card
OCZ Vertex 3 128GB X2 Raid 0 (main windows C: drive)
WD Caviar Black 640GB X2 Raid 0(the best drives ever made)(game install location D: drive)
Seagate Barracuda 3TB ST3000DM001 X4 (media backup)

Running Windows 8.1 ATM. Installed it after I backed up my Windows 7 install. Did not attempt to play any games after the drives were installed. I will install Windows 7 tomorrow to see if the problem persists, but before I get ahead of myself let me state the issue.

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I can't get ANY game to work properly when installed on my C: drive. Installed Fallout 3, crashes once I get to the first baby walking scene. Installed an older game, Fable 1, I get no audio and it crashes within 5 seconds of the first 3d scene. Installed Mechwarrior Online, seems to work fine for the first 5-10 seconds in-game but then the screen freezes but I can still hear audio as if the game is fine. HERE IS THE KICKER. Any game that was already installed on my D: drive..(the Caviar blacks) runs perfectly fine! I'm not sure if this is a Windows issue, or if I'm using too much.. HDD bandwidth(is that a thing?) since I have all SATA slots occupied with drives. Maybe the SSDs are using more SATA POWER!(is that a thing?) and clogging up the..(sata bandwidth..) causing games to not run properly on them? One more thing.. video freezes a well. Not you tube as of yet, but VLC media player. Maybe 2-3 times through a 20 minute episode the screen will freeze but audio will continue to play..(NOTE: these are running on my D: drive, which runs perfectly for the games installed on it.) Another thing, I did install the Windows 10 and the same issue occurred. Can anyone shine some light on my situation? Thank you. I will check up on this in the morning and bump it throughout the day as I work and won't be able to work on my PC and get Windows 7 installed until tomorrow night.

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