[SOLVED] SSD runs games badly.

[Fabrinet232]

Hello guys, I have a bit of a problem with my PC at the moment.

I bought RDR2 and it ran like a dream. After a GPU update two days ago (or so it seemed), the game started acting all weird: The menu's would take too long to appear, my character wouldn't respond to player input, audio would drop out or play some sounds but not others, textures wouldn't load in if I moved too far from the area I spawned.

I blamed it on the game, but today I bought Metro Exodus and it's doing some of the same things, like the audio bugging out or the menu and textures not loading or taking too long to load.

The thing is I moved the game to the smaller 240gb SSD and the problems went away. I still have to check RDR2 on this smaller SSD but i'm fairly confident that the problem lies within the 500gb SSD. I've tested it on many apps and it appears to be healthy, so I don't know what could be causing it.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFjEovMK-0g


-Ryzen 7 3700X at stock speed
-MSI RTX 2070 Super Ventus 8GB
-16 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX RAM
-MSI B450M Bazooka
-1 TB HDD WD Blue
-SSD Kingston A400 500GB
-SSD Crucial BX500 240GB
-EVGA 700 BR 80+ Bronce, 700W

 

[rgd1101]

how old and how full is the bx 500?

 

[Fabrinet232]

how old and how full is the bx 500?

The BX 500 is running fine. Is the A400 that's causing problems. it's about 4-5 months old. I've formatted it just in case but no luck there.

 

[rgd1101]

try different sata port on the motherboard? different data/power cable?

 

[Fabrinet232]

try different sata port on the motherboard? different data/power cable?

I changed both the port used and the cable and it somehow fixed itself. Thank you very much! I didn't that such a small thing would cause it but I guess you never know.