Can HDD's bottleneck?

[tastylime]

Hi, i was wondering if having 63/345 gb left in my main hard drive (not even an SSD) bottnecks with a GTX 1060 6g ,i5 7500 and 8gb 2133mhz? because ive been having alot of stutters on games like Overwatch and GTA V which i didnt have before with my old GTX 950 and i3 6100.

Thank you

 

[DRagor]

Nope. If you had only HDD, AND page file was on it, AND game was short on RAM so would need to use page file, AND you would not have enough free space on HDD to accommodate big enough page file - then it could happen. But this is not your case (as the page file uses few GB at most).

 

[Rdslw]

It's possible. HDD lags is mostly FREEZE with no FPS drops. Try making ramdisc for 300 MB and use ReadyBoost on it. It it helps then you have to get at least second HDD and split workload.
from what you told us you have 512 GB drive. Try looking at HDD model and googling it. Anything with less than 32 MB of cache is performance killers.

in general you want to have 20% of any drive free. Works on any type of drive, anything between 0-80 % is the same.

 

[tastylime]

I do not have an SSD and everything from OS and Games are on my main HDD [345gb] but what do you think is causing all these stutters? because i've only had most of them after buying my GPU and CPU.

 

[tastylime]

It's possible. HDD lags is mostly FREEZE with no FPS drops. Try making ramdisc for 300 MB and use ReadyBoost on it. It it helps then you have to get at least second HDD and split workload.
from what you told us you have 512 GB drive. Try looking at HDD model and googling it. Anything with less than 32 MB of cache is performance killers.

in general you want to have 20% of any drive free. Works on any type of drive, anything between 0-80 % is the same.

Not sure how but it turns out to be 1TB with 32mb cache, and its from 2006.

 

[Rdslw]

It's possible. HDD lags is mostly FREEZE with no FPS drops. Try making ramdisc for 300 MB and use ReadyBoost on it. It it helps then you have to get at least second HDD and split workload.
from what you told us you have 512 GB drive. Try looking at HDD model and googling it. Anything with less than 32 MB of cache is performance killers.

in general you want to have 20% of any drive free. Works on any type of drive, anything between 0-80 % is the same.

Not sure how but it turns out to be 1TB with 32mb cache, and its from 2006.

so it should be decent. I think you should try lowering textures. You need to load them into GPU Vram and if you lack Vram games uses system ram, if system ram is not enough, its dropped and reloaded from HDD. Some games wait for textures to load (will shutter or freeze) or just objects appear later

if you see something like this:
https://youtu.be/-MOUX65Myk0?t=136
then its definitely to slow HDD for your system

I would really recommend experiment with windows ready boost
https://www.howtogeek.com/123780/htg-explains-is-readyboost-worth-using/
on fast pendrive or in ramdisc ( no more than ~300 MB).
Check ram usage while gaming,
http://azius.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/xtaskmanager_commit.png.pagespeed.ic.D-pPoodqJX.png
you want that to be under 9 GB with 8 GB of ram or it will slow down and shutter like crazy on HDD.


Might be worth checking if you did not overload PSU. You should have ~500W

 

[tastylime]

It's possible. HDD lags is mostly FREEZE with no FPS drops. Try making ramdisc for 300 MB and use ReadyBoost on it. It it helps then you have to get at least second HDD and split workload.
from what you told us you have 512 GB drive. Try looking at HDD model and googling it. Anything with less than 32 MB of cache is performance killers.

in general you want to have 20% of any drive free. Works on any type of drive, anything between 0-80 % is the same.

Not sure how but it turns out to be 1TB with 32mb cache, and its from 2006.

so it should be decent. I think you should try lowering textures. You need to load them into GPU Vram and if you lack Vram games uses system ram, if system ram is not enough, its dropped and reloaded from HDD. Some games wait for textures to load (will shutter or freeze) or just objects appear later

if you see something like this:
https://youtu.be/-MOUX65Myk0?t=136
then its definitely to slow HDD for your system

I would really recommend experiment with windows ready boost
https://www.howtogeek.com/123780/htg-explains-is-readyboost-worth-using/
on fast pendrive or in ramdisc ( no more than ~300 MB).
Check ram usage while gaming,
http://azius.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/xtaskmanager_commit.png.pagespeed.ic.D-pPoodqJX.png
you want that to be under 9 GB with 8 GB of ram or it will slow down and shutter like crazy on HDD.


Might be worth checking if you did not overload PSU. You should have ~500W

Thank you and as for the Video yeah sometimes that does happen where i'm like a meter next a building and its not loading and at the same time its invincible like you can go through it, also when i'm doing races some textures dont load until im close to them but isnt that a setting or that's from my PC?

PSU Is 650w
Ram doesnt exceed 9gb [6.0/13.8gb] when in game