[SOLVED] SSD might be causing stuttering and low write speeds

Jan 4, 2019
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Alright before I get started, I'm not the most tech savvy person so bear with me.

So this past Sunday I've been playing Cyberpunk 2077, and everything seemed to be going fine. I was getting an average of 50-55 fps on all rtx ultra settings. I run a RTX 2080ti, i7 8700k, and my SSD is a 446 gb ADATA SU650 SSD. Back to the problem , once I got to the mission where you try to find Evelyn in the Clouds, I kept getting Critical Process Died BSOD seemingly at random after loading into the game for a couple minutes. I went to Windows Powershell and ran up sfc /scannow and it told me it successfully repaired a couple of corrupted files. I thought all was well now, but when I booted up Cyberpunk 2077 the next day, I got a system service exception BSOD. So I didn't really know what to do at this point because it happened mere moments after loading into my desktop, so windows told me to restart and after doing so I ran checkdisk in powershell and restarted my computer once again. Checkdisk told me it was repairing my C: drive, albeit doing so very slow. I left my pc running for about an hour doing its thing, and I came back to see that my monitor wasn't able to pick up a display port connection anymore. Once again not knowing what happened, I hard restarted my computer, and left it running again for another 2 hours or so, and i saw it complete to 100%, only for it to BSOD again telling me the repair failed. It told me to restart my computer again and here we are at the present. I am able to boot into my computer with no problems, but my system is now noticeably slower than before, taking an extra 5 seconds to open any app. My Cyberpunk 2077 also got hit hard as well, because after waiting 2 minutes or so to get into the game, the framerate is now crazy unstable. Once a stable 50-55 fps is now varying wildly at 28-48 fps on the same settings. I have tried resetting the pc and restoring an older checkpoint but both fail to complete, saying they have kept my system the same. Overall this problem has causes my computer to run slower, and my audio to sound really bad as if its corrupted, making frequent popping noises. Does anyone have any solutions?
 
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If you feel certain that this is an OS issue, then you can just backup important files and do a clean install

I recommend checking for windows updates.

If it has no updates for you after checking, then we can try to determine if something has gone wrong with the SSD (the SU series from ADATA is pretty budget and not the highest quality, serviceable sure, but no guarantee of lasting a long time)

Download and run CrystalDiskMark and see what results you get.
Let us know the results.
 
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CrystalDiskMark 7.0.0 x64 (C) 2007-2019 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/
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  • MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
  • KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

[Read]
Sequential 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 370.760 MB/s [ 353.6 IOPS] < 22503.37 us>
Sequential 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 178.233 MB/s [ 170.0 IOPS] < 5880.47 us>
Random 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 127.856 MB/s [ 31214.8 IOPS] < 15813.34 us>
Random 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 3.792 MB/s [ 925.8 IOPS] < 1079.25 us>

[Write]
Sequential 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 113.015 MB/s [ 107.8 IOPS] < 73115.26 us>
Sequential 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 96.610 MB/s [ 92.1 IOPS] < 10823.72 us>
Random 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 49.145 MB/s [ 11998.3 IOPS] < 42083.57 us>
Random 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 8.159 MB/s [ 1991.9 IOPS] < 501.30 us>

Profile: Default
Test: 1 GiB (x5) [Interval: 5 sec] <DefaultAffinity=DISABLED>
Date: 2020/12/23 2:02:57
OS: Windows 10 [10.0 Build 19042] (x64)

I don't know if this is the correct way to post results but here is the general idea. I still have a few questions though. Has this patch for the checkdisk released yet, or is it scheduled to release soon? Also, yes I have checked for updates for windows and it's telling me I'm up to date as of now. On a completely different note, would it be a good idea to just buy a new ssd and do a clean install of windows? I have room for a m.2 ssd and i could just back up all my personal files to my hard drive and reinstall them back, or would it be a better idea to wait for windows to release an update fixing my problem? I would like to get Cyberpunk 2077 at a playable state sooner rather than later.
 
damn. you said this is the SU650 Ultimate right?
Not a lesser SU but the Ultimate correct?
Regardless those reads and writes look very low for sure.

Go ahead and open command prompt as admin (admin is important) then type "chkdsk /f" and press enter, when prompted, press "Y" and enter again, then restart PC.

(without quotations of course)

After rebooting, run CDM again.
 
Yeah after the first time I ran checkdisk is when I think my ssd starting going extremely slow. It must have affected the entire OS because I've experienced slowness for pretty much everything(even something as simple as right clicking on the desktop screen takes about a second), screeen lag(when i move my window around the desktop it lags), and even audio stutters/lag which I didn't expect. How long should i wait for Windows to come out with a fix? or should i just bite the bullet and run checkdisk again tomorrow?

Edit: the primary reason I even decided to run checkdisk is because of all the critcal process died BSOD's I got while playing Cyberpunk. I also actually got another BSOD while typing in this thread funny enough. Also, when I let checkdisk finish for the first time, it told me it wasn't able to complete and just told me to restart, and then afterwards said drive C: 100% complete and booted up so I don't know what was up with that.
 
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BTW, here is a reviewer benchmark of your SSD.
While performance can vary from consumer to consumer, you should still get somewhere near these scores at about 500 read/write.
But you aren't.
su650-cdm.png


As for getting critical BSOD's while playing CP2077 I can't help you there.
I don't have any issues with the game on my PC.

So if you are having BSOD, then that means that the game is exposing a flaw in your system, whether it be an OS installation going messy/bad, or hardware that is starting to fail, or perhaps an overclock that is not good (if you have any OC on anything right now such as CPU, RAM, GPU)
 
Yeah i think the BSOD's were from corrupted system files, I just remembered that before running checkdisk i scanned my system in powershell and it repaired some files for me so I think that was it. My only idea about the BSOD after the scan is that my os or something is corrupted from running checkdisk apparently. For now, should i wait for a windows hotfix?
 
If you feel certain that this is an OS issue, then you can just backup important files and do a clean install

 
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