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Why Does My Disk Sit At 100% Doing Basically Nothing?

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  1. Rhea Haddad
    @rhea_ember

    so annoyed rn smth is choking my PC... loading screens take forever, textures pop in late, and a large online shooter stutters constantly, task Manager:

    Disk 0 (C:) Active time 100%

    Disk 0 (C:)   Active time 100%
Not responding

    100% disk, and the response time numbers look scary. I suspect Windows Update, but I'm not suree how to prove it.

    i already restarted the PC and closed everything i could find in teh system tray, disk usage dropped for a moment, then went straight back up as soon as the game loaded a new area. im about to throw this thing out the window lol

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  2. Lars
    @subnetotter

    What drive model is it, and how much free space is left on it? ??

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  4. Cyrus Mori
    @copperrider

    been there man if teh game is on a hard drive, thats often the main issue. Modern open-world games stream assets constantly and expect SSD speeds. Moving teh game to an SSD usually remoevs this kind of stutter completely. good luck man!

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  5. Alba
    @cobaltbench
    in reply to @copperrider

    SSDs slow down dramatically when nearly full. keep at least 10-20% free space. also check that TRIM is enabled: fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify should return 0. good luck man!

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