- Apr 20, 2013
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So yesterday I had a very short power outage while playing a game on my PC. It scared me a lot at first because it wouldn't boot past the startup splash screen. But eventually I got the idea to unplug all of the USB peripherals and it started up fine. But when it running it was stupidly slow. I naturally thought that something had happened to the hard drive. So I ran a full chkdsk, and now it seems to run fine. Everywhere but games, that is. Maybe it's just that other programs are too resource light in comparison to notice a difference, but it seems to run fine until I boot up a game.
A game that ran wonderfully before (the same game I was playing when the power outage happened), is now almost unplayable. It drops to 0 FPS if it has to load anything new. And load times that were nearly nonexistent before, are now annoyingly long. I didn't even know that the game has a loading screen icon, but now I'm way too familiar with it.
If it doesn't have to load anything new, it runs great. So of course I thought it was still a HDD issue. I've ran all the HDD health tests and checked the SMART data, but it passes them all and the SMART says it's fine. Sooo, anyone have any ideas?
A game that ran wonderfully before (the same game I was playing when the power outage happened), is now almost unplayable. It drops to 0 FPS if it has to load anything new. And load times that were nearly nonexistent before, are now annoyingly long. I didn't even know that the game has a loading screen icon, but now I'm way too familiar with it.
If it doesn't have to load anything new, it runs great. So of course I thought it was still a HDD issue. I've ran all the HDD health tests and checked the SMART data, but it passes them all and the SMART says it's fine. Sooo, anyone have any ideas?
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