Hello, I seem to be having an issue with my hp-envy 17 m7-j078ca.
This laptop came with a 1tb 5400 hdd. I chose to upgrade to a Samsung 840 Evo. I currently only have that drive installed. From the start, I unplugged my HDD and installed my SDD. Then I booted up with a copy of Windows 8. The barebones one not recovery disks from HP. From that point after the OS Install I let it go through all the Windows updates including 8.1. From there I went to the HP website and installed every single driver that was available, maybe had duplicates, but I let hp utility program do its thing and told it to do them all. The only one that failed was the updated BIOS. It failed but the system recovered it and I left it alone. From there I then updated my Nvidia drivers from Nvidia website and Intel rapid tech from Intel website.
Now to my problem, I play 2 games, one being Elite dangerous and the other being SWTOR. Before the upgrade the games where playable, but the 5400 really slowed down loading, especially with SWTOR. The SSD is incredibly fast, my only problem is that the games now stutter. Elite tends to get better after a little while, but SWTOR, really has a hard time especially in crowded areas. I know mmo's are constantly loading info, especially in crowded areas so this could be why the stutter keeps going. The stuttering sometimes makes it unplayable.
I've read up everything I could think of, I have the Samsung magician software installed and RAPID mode and maximum performance mode is on. I installed AD SSD and all the settings are good and connected. iastora is ok. Samsung magician says I'm connected to AHCI and I double checked the BIOS to see if there was perhaps a setting in there but theres nothing. I also have the system on MAX Performance so there is no activated power safe feature on according to Windows and magician. TRIM is on as well
Any ideas what this could be? I tired an 840 pro last year and had the same problem. I returned the drive because it was expensive and would be a waste. This EVO I Got on sale so I had to try again...
Sean
This laptop came with a 1tb 5400 hdd. I chose to upgrade to a Samsung 840 Evo. I currently only have that drive installed. From the start, I unplugged my HDD and installed my SDD. Then I booted up with a copy of Windows 8. The barebones one not recovery disks from HP. From that point after the OS Install I let it go through all the Windows updates including 8.1. From there I went to the HP website and installed every single driver that was available, maybe had duplicates, but I let hp utility program do its thing and told it to do them all. The only one that failed was the updated BIOS. It failed but the system recovered it and I left it alone. From there I then updated my Nvidia drivers from Nvidia website and Intel rapid tech from Intel website.
Now to my problem, I play 2 games, one being Elite dangerous and the other being SWTOR. Before the upgrade the games where playable, but the 5400 really slowed down loading, especially with SWTOR. The SSD is incredibly fast, my only problem is that the games now stutter. Elite tends to get better after a little while, but SWTOR, really has a hard time especially in crowded areas. I know mmo's are constantly loading info, especially in crowded areas so this could be why the stutter keeps going. The stuttering sometimes makes it unplayable.
I've read up everything I could think of, I have the Samsung magician software installed and RAPID mode and maximum performance mode is on. I installed AD SSD and all the settings are good and connected. iastora is ok. Samsung magician says I'm connected to AHCI and I double checked the BIOS to see if there was perhaps a setting in there but theres nothing. I also have the system on MAX Performance so there is no activated power safe feature on according to Windows and magician. TRIM is on as well
Any ideas what this could be? I tired an 840 pro last year and had the same problem. I returned the drive because it was expensive and would be a waste. This EVO I Got on sale so I had to try again...
Sean
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