Long loading times on games.

[santystuffs]

Hello, starting yesterday many of my games loading times were increased drastically (what they used to take 10 seconds top now takes up to 5-10 minutes). When it gets in game the game works flawlessly without an issue or fps drops. What is more odd is that once the game "loads" for the first time, if i close and open the game, the loading screen will take about 10 seconds or less to get into the game, that until i restart my computer which will cause the huge loading times to come back. I tried it with several games (Dota 2, Payday 2, Overwatch, Nier:Automata).

I want to clarify, it´s loading times, the applications launch instantly as always.

 

[VJ_Gamer]

i think this has to be the RAM.

Good Luck. Peace.

 

[nitinvaid20]

Hello, starting yesterday many of my games loading times were increased drastically (what they used to take 10 seconds top now takes up to 5-10 minutes). When it gets in game the game works flawlessly without an issue or fps drops. What is more odd is that once the game "loads" for the first time, if i close and open the game, the loading screen will take about 10 seconds or less to get into the game, that until i restart my computer which will cause the huge loading times to come back. I tried it with several games (Dota 2, Payday 2, Overwatch, Nier:Automata).

I want to clarify, it´s loading times, the applications launch instantly as always.

It looks like the harddrive issue have you noticed any other issue? like transfer file slow speed etc

 

[VJ_Gamer]

Just try to remove the ram and reinsert and try if it solves the issue.

Good Luck. Peace.

 

[santystuffs]

It looks like the harddrive issue have you noticed any other issue? like transfer file slow speed etc

I am trying sending a 350 mb folder to my pendrive, its taking 8 minutes to do so at a speed of 750kb/s~ I think that´s a normal speed for it?

 

[santystuffs]

Just try to remove the ram and reinsert and try if it solves the issue.

Good Luck. Peace.

I´ll try that, but i doubt its the issue, as i said, games run perfectly once they load, i don´t get any BSOD nor fps drops.

 

[nitinvaid20]

It looks like the harddrive issue have you noticed any other issue? like transfer file slow speed etc

I am trying sending a 350 mb folder to my pendrive, its taking 8 minutes to do so at a speed of 750kb/s~ I think that´s a normal speed for it?

I am talking about copying files over your HDD one partition to another like from another partition to your game directory

 

[TJ Hooker]

i think this has to be the RAM.

Good Luck. Peace.

If there was something wrong with the RAM or how its seated, it'd manifest in memory errors, bluescreens/crashes, failure to boot, overall instability etc. Not slow loading times.

 

[Eximo]

How are you doing on available space?

Many SSDs don't like to be 90%+ full, they really slow down as they try to write/read/trim in the small space available.

 

[santystuffs]

I am talking about copying files over your HDD one partition to another like from another partition to your game directory

Oh i see, i don´t have a partition, is there a way to make one now to try that out?

 

[santystuffs]

How are you doing on available space?

Many SSDs don't like to be 90%+ full, they really slow down as they try to write/read/trim in the small space available.

I have 24% available space at the moment.

 

[geofelt]

Once code is loaded into ram, windows will keep it around in anticipation of reuse.
That is normal and will explain why times are longer after a reboot and shorter for subsequent reuse.

You might want to run a vendor supplied specific diagnostic on the drive where your games are loaded.
WD has data lifeguard, Seagate has seatools.

Defrag may help HDD performance by rearranging files into more contiguous blocks.
Try that.

Over time hard drive sectors may go bad.
Hardware will reassign bad sectors to a spare. But there is no telling how distant that spare might be.
But it will be a negative impact. The more spares in use, the worse the impact.

If this is the case, one can reinitialize the drive destructively to get back to full performance.

 

[santystuffs]

Once code is loaded into ram, windows will keep it around in anticipation of reuse.
That is normal and will explain why times are longer after a reboot and shorter for subsequent reuse.

You might want to run a vendor supplied specific diagnostic on the drive where your games are loaded.
WD has data lifeguard, Seagate has seatools.

Defrag may help HDD performance by rearranging files into more contiguous blocks.
Try that.

Over time hard drive sectors may go bad.
Hardware will reassign bad sectors to a spare. But there is no telling how distant that spare might be.
But it will be a negative impact. The more spares in use, the worse the impact.

If this is the case, one can reinitialize the drive destructively to get back to full performance.

I see, my HDD is a Storage 931GB TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 SATA Disk Device (SATA) i´ll see what i can do with that.

And what you mean with " reinitialize the drive destructively to get back to full performance." you mean doing a full format?