FPS drop after 2nd ssd installed.

newtype88

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Oct 2, 2017
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Computer Type custom built PC.
GPU Asus GTX 1070 turbo 8gb Ram - stock.
CPU i7 6700k at 4.6ghz.
Motherboard Asus z170i pro gaming. Bios 3406(current)
Ram Corsair vengeance lpx 16gb(2x8gb) ddr4 3200mhz xmp enabled, no OC.
PSU EVGA - SuperNOVA GS 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply.
Storage - 500gb 850 evo(OS) and new crucial 2tb ssd.
OS/version Windows 10 build 1703 64 bit .
GPU driver 385.69 clean install.


Description of problem

Just played BF1 before installing this new SSD, everything ran perfect(constant 60fps with my settings). Now after I installed 2nd SSD, my FPS have taken a nose dive and my GPU usage has gone up. Nothing has changed, game is still on original (os)SSD 850 evo. 2nd SSD has nothing on it what so ever.

OS is installed on my 500gb 850 evo(sata2). Bought 2nd SSD and installed it(sata1). I have not moved anything onto my 2nd SSD because I needed to test if my games were going to get hit with an FPS drop again. When I say "again" I had this exact problem when I installed a HDD to sata 1. Even when nothing was on the HDD or in this case my new SSD. Pretty sure I uninstalled the HDD and was still having issues, but once I physically removed it, my problems went away.

Why is a second drive affecting my games that are installed on my primary drive ? This makes it the second drive to bring upon these issues. 1st the hdd and now this SDD.

Troubleshooting Memtest86 - passed. Ran HDD diagnostic tool again (2nd time) - passed. DDU followed by clean install of latest nvidia drivers. Malwarebytes - passed. Gpu temps do not exceed 64c(furmark) and CPU temps do not exceed 73c (prime95 v.226). Repaired/verified game files.Power settings in both windows and NVidia are set to performance.
 
Solution


Hey, thanks for the response.

The issue has since been resolved. I didn't do anything different from what I have already posted. After multiple clean installs and restarts I guess something finally started working.

Might be a long shot but worth to try:
Plug your OS drive to SATA1 port and your storage device to SATA2 port. You can also try to move the storage drive to a different SATA port, e.g 3 or 4.
In my Skylake and Haswell builds (full specs with pics in my sig), i have OS drive in SATA1, ODD in SATA2, HDD1 in SATA3 and HDD2 in SATA4.
 


Hey, thanks for the response.

The issue has since been resolved. I didn't do anything different from what I have already posted. After multiple clean installs and restarts I guess something finally started working.

 
Solution