Hard Disk was running games really slow so I upgraded to an SSD. But now its running slow again!

Marksy5

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Just looking for help with this issue, when I run gta on my pc i get noticably low FPS. No crashing just really lagging. It ran fine before but one day just got really bad. I had the same issue with a harddrive I owned so i upgraded to an SSD. The issue went away for a few months but now its back.

Hardware List-
AMD A8-6600k
Radeon R7-260X
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
MSI A88XI AC (MS-7913)
8GB single channel DDR3 RAM @ 1068MHz

Things I've tried-
Updating GPU drivers
Freeing up space on SSD (this helped a little but not fully)

 
Solution
Welcome to Tom's Hardware, Marksy5!

I'd recommend you check the SATA controller & chipset drivers for your motherboard from its official website. Make sure you got those up-to-date. I'd also recommend you check if you have correctly set the SATA mode for the SSD in AHCI.
Running the SSD's brand-specific tool will help you determine if you have the latest firmware installed on it as well.

You might also want to power down the PC and reseat all the connections inside. If you have a spare SATA cable, you should definitely try swapping the one that is currently connecting the SSD to the mobo.

Good luck! Keep me updated! :)
SuperSoph_WD

Welcome to Tom's Hardware, Marksy5!

I'd recommend you check the SATA controller & chipset drivers for your motherboard from its official website. Make sure you got those up-to-date. I'd also recommend you check if you have correctly set the SATA mode for the SSD in AHCI.
Running the SSD's brand-specific tool will help you determine if you have the latest firmware installed on it as well.

You might also want to power down the PC and reseat all the connections inside. If you have a spare SATA cable, you should definitely try swapping the one that is currently connecting the SSD to the mobo.

Good luck! Keep me updated! :)
SuperSoph_WD

 
Solution


It may be you havent read my post-"It ran fine before but one day just got really bad"