Sup

So my disk usage goes to 99% a lot...

“Reset” my computer last night and still having issues from what I can tell without playing a game

I have a 3rd gen I5 3.xghz quad core

16 gig ram

New geforce gfx card


Curious if anyone has solution to this because I lag on games I shouldn’t be and I’m pretty confident it’s because of my disk usage percentage.

Should I just upgrade my hard drive to an ssd (which would require me to buy a new windows I think.. worried friend may of installed a cracked version when my psu went out)

Or is there any other remedies or potiental issues?

Really appreciate help

Download Process Hacker and view -> tray icons -> i/o history + disk history and see what's using all the resources when this happens.

Should I Just Buy A Ssd?

ofc

What are you using to monitor the hard drive usage?

Task manager or whatever

Performance section

At work will try the first post’s thing when I get home

Tadk manager is notorious for reading 99% even when your hdd is only using 1mbps

I’m also lagging while it does this

What’s a better way to test this?

This post was edited by FirstDoorFail on Nov 30 2017 01:26pm

Check for superfetch running, in the list of things and stop it. This started in Windows 8 and they never fixed it.
As soon as you do something it locks up and spikes in disk usage.

Could be a few other things like updates but superfetch is common.

that's the funny thing about disk usage, 1mb/s could take nearly all of his drive's seek time if it's random ops, or it could be barely 1% of what it can handle sequentially. ssd's also have a disparity between sequential and random speed but it's not as big, but this has always made it nearly impossible to make a viable disk usage percentage... every single i/o workload is so different in the speed the drive can perform it at, so disk usage graphs tend to be relative; if you've had no activity for awhile anything will put it up to 100%.

This post was edited by DCSS on Nov 30 2017 05:26pm