Disk Usage at 100% when playing new games

Zombi350 · Apr 12, 2017

I can't play games like Forza Horizon 3 or Doom because my Hard Drive usage is at 100% when I'm playing and then for example on Forza I only have 1-2 fps.
Doom is just slowing down. The Crew is slowing to 30 fps and I know that can get around 60-50 fps.
When I'm not playing Disk Usage is around 5-10%.
My specs:
- MSI GTX 950
- i5 4460
- Asus H97-E
- WD 1TB

Can someone help me?
Thank you.

problematiq · Apr 12, 2017

how old is the drive? you might also run a check disk on the drive.

Zombi350 · Apr 12, 2017

problematiq :

My Hard Drive is only 7-8 months old and how do I check it?

problematiq · Apr 12, 2017

Windows key do a search for "CMD" right click it and "Run as administrator" type in "chkdsk c: /F /R /X" it will say it will schedule it for the next restart. then restart your pc and let it run. this will take some time. e.g. 1-2 hours.

ss202sl · Apr 12, 2017

how much space is free on the drive? is it fragmented?

problematiq · Apr 12, 2017

ss202sl :

As of Vista the OS auto de-fragments the drive when it exceeds 4% fragmentation.

Zombi350 · Apr 12, 2017

ss202sl :

problematiq :

I curently have 204GB of free space and I'm not sure but I think that I already de-fragmented it.
Oh and I have Windows 10

ss202sl · Apr 12, 2017

He when did he say what OS? Also can you turn off the automatic windows maintenance(including disk defrag)?

problematiq · Apr 12, 2017

ss202sl :

You can, but it's an odd thing to disable. And it's easy to assume he's using an OS later than XP

ss202sl · Apr 12, 2017

The fastest way to miss something obvious is to assume anything.

problematiq · Apr 12, 2017

To turn defragmenting of a drive off you have to Open Windows Explorer and right-click on the Drive disk. Select Properties and press the Tools tab. Under Optimize and defragment drive, click on the Optimize button. The Optimize Drives box will open. Click on the Change settings box.
Uncheck the Run on a schedule check-box and Click OK.

I'm going with no one turned that off. If you spend all your time looking in places the problem is likely not you will likely never find the solution.

Zombi350 · Apr 13, 2017

ss202sl :

True.
But watch this video: [video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJgBkBbtvA&feature=youtu.be"][/video]
It's mine.

problematiq · Apr 13, 2017

yeah.. there's something wrong with your drive.. by that video your make throughput of your HDD is only around 15 MB/s it should be closer to 50-70 MB/s

Zombi350 · Apr 13, 2017

problematiq :

Oh so this is why when I transfer something, it starts at high speed and then goes to 1MB/s

problematiq · Apr 13, 2017

Zombi350 :

Unless it's 10's of thousands of small items being transferred it should still stay in that 50-70 range.

Zombi350 · Apr 13, 2017

problematiq :

Zombi350 :

Unless it's 10's of thousands of small items being transferred it should still stay in that 50-70 range.

I was transfering now 3 movies with total of 1.7GB and it took 30 min.

problematiq · Apr 13, 2017

Zombi350 :

problematiq :

I was transfering now 3 movies with total of 1.7GB and it took 30 min.

That's bad, it should have only taken 35 seconds.

Zombi350 · Apr 13, 2017

problematiq :

Zombi350 :

That's bad, it should have only taken 35 seconds.

And what to do now? Buy an SSD?

problematiq · Apr 13, 2017

Zombi350 :

problematiq :

Zombi350 :

That's bad, it should have only taken 35 seconds.

And what to do now? Buy an SSD?

Did you do a check disk?

Zombi350 · Apr 13, 2017

problematiq :

Zombi350 :

problematiq :

And what to do now? Buy an SSD?

Did you do a check disk?

How to do that?

problematiq · Apr 13, 2017

Press the windows key do a search for "CMD" right click it and "Run as administrator" type in "chkdsk c: /F /R /X" it will say it will schedule it for the next restart, then restart your pc and let it run. this will take some time. e.g. 1-2 hours.

Zombi350 · Apr 13, 2017

problematiq :

so

2 hours later and still on 13%
Is that normal?

problematiq · Apr 13, 2017

Zombi350 :

not normally, on a bad disk i can expect up to 4 hours. i would look to buy a new HDD or if you can swing it, a SSD. No matter how long it takes though don't stop it mid scan.

Zombi350 · Apr 13, 2017

problematiq :

Zombi350 :

not normally, on a bad disk i can expect up to 4 hours. i would look to buy a new HDD or if you can swing it, a SSD. No matter how long it takes though don't stop it mid scan.

Ok

Zombi350 · Apr 13, 2017

problematiq :

Zombi350 :

not normally, on a bad disk i can expect up to 4 hours. i would look to buy a new HDD or if you can swing it, a SSD. No matter how long it takes though don't stop it mid scan.

Ok it's done.
And now what?

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