99% disk usage after rebooting / installing windows 10, while mostly playing games

serberen

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Hey ppl, as the title says after I did a reboot and got windows 10 on my computer it have been alot slower, mostly though or only when i play games, before i did any of the previous said changes my computer was alot better.

I've noticed many people have similar problems with high disk usage but not many people only when they play games, so i've had a hard time fixing this dispite trying many ways to improve performance and decrease disk usage or possibly ram/mermory in ANY way possible but with honestly nothing made a noticeable difference.

Even if I decrease settings to the lowest point there's hardly any difference, and while my computer is defo not the best but It could manage fine before said changes.

It's also abit strange for while I forexample play a game called World of Warcraft, I login, see the fps being very poor, a minute after it jumps 30 fps so I'm back on 60 fps out of no where so its back to being fine, and It does this consistently, going up and down, with seemingly nothing that I do impacts it.

I have 6gb ram on this computer currently, and the games I play takes in between 1000 to 1700mb If I remember correctly.
Right now this moment memory uses 67% with google chrome taking some of it, and the highest is 450mb from a game client that's it, but disk usage is normal at 1-3% since I'm not playing any games.

I think that's It for now, any help is appreciated!

I think that's all I got for now, I would appreciate any help
 


Hi.

No I don't think I've touched the page file, for specs:

Intel R Core i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20 GHz 3.20 GHz
Ram: 6.00gb
64bit operativsystem, 64 bit based processor
Windows 10 Pro
Geforce GT 440

I think that's It

I tried what you said and put it to zero.

As a side note one game that I've been having issues with that usually uses around 1500mb memory/ram used the other day 4000mb and seemed to run alot better, so perhaps somehow theres more to be used but usually only stays below 1700mb for most of the time
 
for me windows defender was the culprit for my hdd running crazy at boot up and other random times. disabling that left me with no more issues.

i'd suggest turning that off and see if that helps. it will update and scan whenever it feels like so there is really no rhyme or reason to when it happens after boot up. superfetch is also a minor problem as well. it scans at boot up mostly but can keep your hdd flat out for a good 10 minutes or more.

assuming you have win 10 home, this is how to turn off windows defender through the registry. http://ccm.net/faq/45163-how-to-disable-windows-defender-in-windows-10 if you have win 10 pro, then group policy let's you do the same thing
 
i'm sure it is another resource hog but i don't think that uses the hdd as it simply puts ads into the notification bar. would use ram for sure but not set the hdd to going flat out.

from my experience so far, windows defender and superfetch/indexing is the main problem. i know defender is supposed to turn itself off if you install a 3rd party AV program but it does not. it may grey out the option and say it is off but it is still running. those stupid malicious program scanners are also a problem but they only run once a month and so far i can't stop them from auto running when they get auto-installed.
 
malicious software runs same time as the monthly cumulative update, its not a problem at all really. Parents PC has Eset installed but I am sure defender has turned itself on as well as start up super slow. I have tried to stop defender but it randonly starts telling me I have no AV running even when Eset is saying everything is fine. If PC wasn't so crap I would try to figure that out but we replacing it in a few months.

I know its not on my PC as I would have noticed it using 100% CPU by now - I use bitdefender so I can control when it scans, defender just does it whenever it likes.

guess I don't play any games so superfetch never bugs me: http://www.technipages.com/windows-enable-disable-superfetch
 


Yeah I've had windows 10 off for awhile but real time protection seems like i cant turn off and also says in the description it cant be apparently for good, although I did used the link you posted.

About Superfetch I've disabled this a few days ago
 
One game that i played recently my computer uses 4000mb+ memory and another only 1300mb and thus the second game is slower most of time, the fps is very inconsistent in both games, sometimes fine sometimes very bad