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My Game Stutters Like Crazy, And Its Not The GPU, Its The Disk

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Accepted solution by Alba Kowalski — if the drive is external USB, plug it into a rear USB port directly on the motherboard. some USB controllers and enclosures throttle badly…
  1. Haruto R.
    @harutor769

    im literally losing my mind here my gaming sessions have turned into slideshows. heres Task Manager while a large online shooter is running:

    Disk 0 (C:) Active time 100%

    Disk 0 (C:)   Active time 100%
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    The drive is an old hard drive. It started a couple of weeks ago out of nowhere. Before i buy a new drive, how do i find whats actually using it?

    The drive isnt that old, and i havent noticed anything else strange. Before i spend money on new storage, i wanna be sure its actually teh hardware. pls help 🙏

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  2. Rhea Mendes
    @rmendes_45

    open Resource Monitor (resmon), go to the Disk tab, and sort by Total (B/sec). youll see exactly which process is reading or writing. thats far more useufl than Task Managers percentage. good luck man!

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  3. Liv Mendes
    @buffergarage
    in reply to @rmendes_45

    oof bump... still happening with shooter for me... pro tip: write down what u change, i didnt and had to redo large from scratch

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  5. Tariq Iqbal
    @socketwrangler

    yeahhh SSDs slow down dramatically when nearly full. keep at least 10-20% free space. also check that TRIM is enalbed: fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify should return 0. lmk how it goes

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  6. Rhea Mendes
    @rmendes_45

    ok so following, having the same problem. spent 20 minutes on update and im still not done

    thumbsup

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  7. Alba Kowalski
    @late_otter
    Accepted solution

    if the drive is external USB, plug it into a rear USB port directly on the motherboard. some USB controllers and enclosures throttle badly under sustained random reads.

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  8. Haruto R.
    @harutor769
    in reply to @late_otter

    @late_otter wowww ok cleared space on the drive and checked TRIM. Disk usage behaves normally now. Thanks for the detailed steps. seriously made my day 😭🙏

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