Greetings everyone!
I am having quite a frustrating issue with my ASUS laptop. The machine has 2 disk drives: HDD (ST1000LM014) and SSD (SanDisk SDSSDP128G). While playing all types of games on the HDD and when new elements need to be loaded onto the screen, the game freezes up for less than a second.
For instance: When playing CS:GO and an enemy appears behind a corner - it spikes up. When playing WoW and I open up the character information window - it spikes up. I think you get the idea.
To my technically inexperienced understanding, it seems as if the HDD cannot cope with more dynamic situations happening on the screen. When monitoring the Disk drives via the task manager, there are visibly notable peaks in the usage of the HDD, matching the lagspikes in-game.
I've tried playing the same game on both the SSD and the HDD and I am 100% certain that this issue occurs only on the HDD.
The spikes are for less than a second but I certainly feel them while playing and it would be an understatement to say how frustratingly annoying the situation is.
The laptop is almost a year old and I've been having these issues for quite some time now (let's say the beginning of January).
I've tried scanning and fixing the issue with SeaTools (the Seagate's disk drive tool) but nothing works. The BIOS is running AHCI. Tried setting it to IDE but the PC failed to load (almost had a heart attack and reversed back to ACHI).
At this point I have no idea what to do. I haven't tried reinstalling my Windows 10 as it's located on the SSD and I can't really see how this might be causing issues on the HDD.
Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated!!! Thank you for your time.
I am having quite a frustrating issue with my ASUS laptop. The machine has 2 disk drives: HDD (ST1000LM014) and SSD (SanDisk SDSSDP128G). While playing all types of games on the HDD and when new elements need to be loaded onto the screen, the game freezes up for less than a second.
For instance: When playing CS:GO and an enemy appears behind a corner - it spikes up. When playing WoW and I open up the character information window - it spikes up. I think you get the idea.
To my technically inexperienced understanding, it seems as if the HDD cannot cope with more dynamic situations happening on the screen. When monitoring the Disk drives via the task manager, there are visibly notable peaks in the usage of the HDD, matching the lagspikes in-game.
I've tried playing the same game on both the SSD and the HDD and I am 100% certain that this issue occurs only on the HDD.
The spikes are for less than a second but I certainly feel them while playing and it would be an understatement to say how frustratingly annoying the situation is.
The laptop is almost a year old and I've been having these issues for quite some time now (let's say the beginning of January).
I've tried scanning and fixing the issue with SeaTools (the Seagate's disk drive tool) but nothing works. The BIOS is running AHCI. Tried setting it to IDE but the PC failed to load (almost had a heart attack and reversed back to ACHI).
At this point I have no idea what to do. I haven't tried reinstalling my Windows 10 as it's located on the SSD and I can't really see how this might be causing issues on the HDD.
Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated!!! Thank you for your time.
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