Possible slow hdd scores

Tony3-1-9 · Aug 26, 2016

Hello, so since upgrading to windows au I have noticed my computer is a bit sluggish, Games seem to take longer to load up and textures can sometimes take a few seconds to load in games. I ran AS SSD on my 7200rpm 64mb 1tb hdd and heres the below results I got

1gb
SEQ Read: 153.39 Write: 108.47
4k Read 0.49 Write:1.00
Acc Time Read: 19.550ms Write: 21.673ms

I'm just trying to figure out if hardware could be the issue, I have ran chkdsk/ sfc/scannow fresh install of windows 10, hard drive is 0% defragged, clean install of gpu drivers, and memtest. The memory test and chkdsk, sfc/scan now came back good. I don't know if the as ssd results are good or bad for my hdd so I'm asking you guys

b-man542 · Aug 27, 2016

Those speed results seem typical of a 1TB hard drive. You might need to look at how much available RAM you have for loading your games rather than the speed of your hard drive.

If disk speeds matter buy a 1TB SSD and replace your hard drive you will get way better results.

Tony3-1-9 · Aug 28, 2016

b-man542 :

Ok Thanks or the info, I have 1x8gb ddr3 with 7.94 usable according to GeForce experience. In gta 5 ram usage hits over 6gb and bf4 around 5gb. My mb has only 2 dim slots so I got the 1x8gb stick so I could upgrade in the future to 2x8gb, maybe time to do so. Would memory effect texture loading? Also I monitored the pagefile usage in both gta 5 and bf4, with pagefile being set automatically by windows. It hits over 11gb in gta 5 as well as using 6gb ram, is this normal? Could it cause the freezing/texture bugs in games?

b-man542 · Aug 28, 2016

Tony3-1-9 :

Yes this sounds like your bottleneck. Texture loading is heavy on ram and when that runs out things get swapped to the Pagefile on the harddisk. The Pagefile use put simply is a good thing as this prevents your system from losing loaded data pages for your games as your system memory begins to fill up. System managed Pagefile is normally the best setting.

First of all I would recommend expanding with another 8GB stick into your spare slot on your motherboard taking your system to 16GB you will see a significant increase in speed as less data will be swapped to your harddisk.

Secondly if you want things to be fast and snappy consider swapping your windows boot disk for a SSD.
SSDs have very fast random read/write time which significantly improves performance of the Pagefile and operating system. A good thing to note is the Pagefile gets used even when you have free memory as the system swaps out data which is sitting in memory which hasn't been used in a while making way for other applications to be loaded quickly instead of dumping random things. Sometimes with system managed Pagefile if you are low on disk space it will place this on a slow harddisk removing most of the benefits of having an SSD. If you ever feel like you should manually set the Pagefile the old rule of thumb is the Pagefile should be at least 1.5x the size of your memory and at most twice as large. So if you has 8GB of ram you could get 16GB of Pagefile. In your case you can see this while running bf4 and gta 5 your pagefile gets to 11GB. Hopefully this makes sense as to whats causing your issue.

Tony3-1-9 · Aug 28, 2016

b-man542 :

Tony3-1-9 :

Yes this sounds like your bottleneck. Texture loading is heavy on ram and when that runs out things get swapped to the Pagefile on the harddisk. The Pagefile use put simply is a good thing as this prevents your system from losing loaded data pages for your games as your system memory begins to fill up. System managed Pagefile is normally the best setting.

First of all I would recommend expanding with another 8GB stick into your spare slot on your motherboard taking your system to 16GB you will see a significant increase in speed as less data will be swapped to your harddisk.

Secondly if you want things to be fast and snappy consider swapping your windows boot disk for a SSD.
SSDs have very fast random read/write time which significantly improves performance of the Pagefile and operating system. A good thing to note is the Pagefile gets used even when you have free memory as the system swaps out data which is sitting in memory which hasn't been used in a while making way for other applications to be loaded quickly instead of dumping random things. Sometimes with system managed Pagefile if you are low on disk space it will place this on a slow harddisk removing most of the benefits of having an SSD. If you ever feel like you should manually set the Pagefile the old rule of thumb is the Pagefile should be at least 1.5x the size of your memory and at most twice as large. So if you has 8GB of ram you could get 16GB of Pagefile. In your case you can see this while running bf4 and gta 5 your pagefile gets to 11GB. Hopefully this makes sense as to whats causing your issue.

Thanks man, really helpful! 1st on the list a stick of ram then il get a ssd down the line.

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