Disk Usage at 100% when playing new games

[Zombi350]

I can't play games like Forza Horizon 3 or Doom because my Hard Drive usage is at 100% when I'm playing and then for example on Forza I only have 1-2 fps.
Doom is just slowing down. The Crew is slowing to 30 fps and I know that can get around 60-50 fps.
When I'm not playing Disk Usage is around 5-10%.
My specs:
- MSI GTX 950
- i5 4460
- Asus H97-E
- WD 1TB

Can someone help me?
Thank you.

 

[problematiq]

how old is the drive? you might also run a check disk on the drive.

 

[Zombi350]

how old is the drive? you might also run a check disk on the drive.

My Hard Drive is only 7-8 months old and how do I check it?

 

[problematiq]

Windows key do a search for "CMD" right click it and "Run as administrator" type in "chkdsk c: /F /R /X" it will say it will schedule it for the next restart. then restart your pc and let it run. this will take some time. e.g. 1-2 hours.

 

[ss202sl]

how much space is free on the drive? is it fragmented?

 

[problematiq]

how much space is free on the drive? is it fragmented?

As of Vista the OS auto de-fragments the drive when it exceeds 4% fragmentation.

 

[Zombi350]

how much space is free on the drive? is it fragmented?

how much space is free on the drive? is it fragmented?

As of Vista the OS auto de-fragments the drive when it exceeds 4% fragmentation.

I curently have 204GB of free space and I'm not sure but I think that I already de-fragmented it.
Oh and I have Windows 10

 

[ss202sl]

He when did he say what OS? Also can you turn off the automatic windows maintenance(including disk defrag)?

 

[problematiq]

He when did he say what OS? Also can you turn off the automatic windows maintenance(including disk defrag)?

You can, but it's an odd thing to disable. And it's easy to assume he's using an OS later than XP

 

[ss202sl]

The fastest way to miss something obvious is to assume anything.

 

[problematiq]

To turn defragmenting of a drive off you have to Open Windows Explorer and right-click on the Drive disk. Select Properties and press the Tools tab. Under Optimize and defragment drive, click on the Optimize button. The Optimize Drives box will open. Click on the Change settings box.
Uncheck the Run on a schedule check-box and Click OK.

I'm going with no one turned that off. If you spend all your time looking in places the problem is likely not you will likely never find the solution.

 

[Zombi350]

The fastest way to miss something obvious is to assume anything.

True.
But watch this video: [video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJgBkBbtvA&feature=youtu.be"][/video]
It's mine.

 

[problematiq]

yeah.. there's something wrong with your drive.. by that video your make throughput of your HDD is only around 15 MB/s it should be closer to 50-70 MB/s

 

[Zombi350]

yeah.. there's something wrong with your drive.. by that video your make throughput of your HDD is only around 15 MB/s it should be closer to 50-70 MB/s

Oh so this is why when I transfer something, it starts at high speed and then goes to 1MB/s

 

[problematiq]

yeah.. there's something wrong with your drive.. by that video your make throughput of your HDD is only around 15 MB/s it should be closer to 50-70 MB/s

Oh so this is why when I transfer something, it starts at high speed and then goes to 1m/s

Unless it's 10's of thousands of small items being transferred it should still stay in that 50-70 range.

 

[Zombi350]

yeah.. there's something wrong with your drive.. by that video your make throughput of your HDD is only around 15 MB/s it should be closer to 50-70 MB/s

Oh so this is why when I transfer something, it starts at high speed and then goes to 1m/s

Unless it's 10's of thousands of small items being transferred it should still stay in that 50-70 range.

I was transfering now 3 movies with total of 1.7GB and it took 30 min.

 

[problematiq]

yeah.. there's something wrong with your drive.. by that video your make throughput of your HDD is only around 15 MB/s it should be closer to 50-70 MB/s

Oh so this is why when I transfer something, it starts at high speed and then goes to 1m/s

Unless it's 10's of thousands of small items being transferred it should still stay in that 50-70 range.

I was transfering now 3 movies with total of 1.7GB and it took 30 min.

That's bad, it should have only taken 35 seconds.

 

[Zombi350]

yeah.. there's something wrong with your drive.. by that video your make throughput of your HDD is only around 15 MB/s it should be closer to 50-70 MB/s

Oh so this is why when I transfer something, it starts at high speed and then goes to 1m/s

Unless it's 10's of thousands of small items being transferred it should still stay in that 50-70 range.

I was transfering now 3 movies with total of 1.7GB and it took 30 min.

That's bad, it should have only taken 35 seconds.

And what to do now? Buy an SSD?

 

[problematiq]

yeah.. there's something wrong with your drive.. by that video your make throughput of your HDD is only around 15 MB/s it should be closer to 50-70 MB/s

Oh so this is why when I transfer something, it starts at high speed and then goes to 1m/s

Unless it's 10's of thousands of small items being transferred it should still stay in that 50-70 range.

I was transfering now 3 movies with total of 1.7GB and it took 30 min.

That's bad, it should have only taken 35 seconds.

And what to do now? Buy an SSD?

Did you do a check disk?

 

[Zombi350]

yeah.. there's something wrong with your drive.. by that video your make throughput of your HDD is only around 15 MB/s it should be closer to 50-70 MB/s

Oh so this is why when I transfer something, it starts at high speed and then goes to 1m/s

Unless it's 10's of thousands of small items being transferred it should still stay in that 50-70 range.

I was transfering now 3 movies with total of 1.7GB and it took 30 min.

That's bad, it should have only taken 35 seconds.

And what to do now? Buy an SSD?

Did you do a check disk?

How to do that?

 

[problematiq]

Press the windows key do a search for "CMD" right click it and "Run as administrator" type in "chkdsk c: /F /R /X" it will say it will schedule it for the next restart, then restart your pc and let it run. this will take some time. e.g. 1-2 hours.

 

[Zombi350]

Press the windows key do a search for "CMD" right click it and "Run as administrator" type in "chkdsk c: /F /R /X" it will say it will schedule it for the next restart, then restart your pc and let it run. this will take some time. e.g. 1-2 hours.

so

2 hours later and still on 13%
Is that normal?

 

[problematiq]

Press the windows key do a search for "CMD" right click it and "Run as administrator" type in "chkdsk c: /F /R /X" it will say it will schedule it for the next restart, then restart your pc and let it run. this will take some time. e.g. 1-2 hours.

so

2 hours later and still on 13%
Is that normal?

not normally, on a bad disk i can expect up to 4 hours. i would look to buy a new HDD or if you can swing it, a SSD. No matter how long it takes though don't stop it mid scan.

 

[Zombi350]

Press the windows key do a search for "CMD" right click it and "Run as administrator" type in "chkdsk c: /F /R /X" it will say it will schedule it for the next restart, then restart your pc and let it run. this will take some time. e.g. 1-2 hours.

so

2 hours later and still on 13%
Is that normal?

not normally, on a bad disk i can expect up to 4 hours. i would look to buy a new HDD or if you can swing it, a SSD. No matter how long it takes though don't stop it mid scan.

Ok

 

[Zombi350]

Press the windows key do a search for "CMD" right click it and "Run as administrator" type in "chkdsk c: /F /R /X" it will say it will schedule it for the next restart, then restart your pc and let it run. this will take some time. e.g. 1-2 hours.

so

2 hours later and still on 13%
Is that normal?

not normally, on a bad disk i can expect up to 4 hours. i would look to buy a new HDD or if you can swing it, a SSD. No matter how long it takes though don't stop it mid scan.

Ok it's done.
And now what?