Trying to play overwatch, stuck at loading screen and booted for inactivity.

[michaelg0911]

Title describes the main issue.

Another issue that appears is that Blizzard and Steam will either not open at all when I try to launch or they will simply take forever to open. Maybe anywhere from 5-15 minutes.

While I searched around for causes I also noticed that any time I open an app that utilizes my (T) drive, it shoots up to 100% in performance in Task Manager. Not sure why.

Stats:
Operating system: Win 10 Pro
Operating system bit-system (32-bit, 64-bit etc.): 64
Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K
Ram: 24 GB
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
(C) Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD
(T) 3 TB Toshiba drive

 

[Gavin Crane PC]

When you open task manager, have you tried ending the task that is slowing down your hard drive? Or does every program you open cause the spike? I'm guessing you have Overwatch and Steam installed on your (T) drive. Check the health of the drive using a program like CrystalDiskInfo or use the Windows CHKDSK Tool. You can try moving over your programs and games to your SSD to see if the problem persists.

 

[michaelg0911]

When you open task manager, have you tried ending the task that is slowing down your hard drive? Or does every program you open cause the spike? I'm guessing you have Overwatch and Steam installed on your (T) drive. Check the health of the drive using a program like CrystalDiskInfo or use the Windows CHKDSK Tool. You can try moving over your programs and games to your SSD to see if the problem persists.

So I thought I responded to this the other day. I guess I closed the window before typing it out.

SO.
The drive that's working too hard isn't the OS drive. So nothing in task manager is actually using the 100% drive. I only see that working number when I go to Performance.

Steam (The program) is installed on C, but games are installed on T.

I tried turning off Windows Search and some other program other threads said to turn off, and tried following some other guides I saw that others said worked (this is a while out now so I forget),
Only when I tried to open the T drive in file explorer, windows crashed.
I restarted, because windows crashed, and it was broken. I couldn't open to the login screen. I got blue screened and told that my drive was needing to be repaird and I couldn't repair it. I couldn't even install Linux to just get past the blue screen. I tried all the troubleshooting options for hours, then tried Linux install and that's when windows finally started working again. And at that time, T was functioning normally. Steam opened up immediately, I was able to play Overwatch without any issue.

Only now, T drive is back to working at 100%. FWIW it has 202 GB free of 2.5 TB.

I've tried moving some programs to my other HDDs and am going to uninstall several games from steam to reinstall elsewhere, but it is still causing issue.


CrystalDiskInfo says T is in good health status. Temp 31, Rotation rate 7200, Power On Count 801, Power On Hourse 7394, temperature current and worst are also currently at 200 in the detailed info... but 30 up top? Very confusing for me https://i.imgur.com/EkaTumN.png

also, even now trying to install something from steam onto a different drive, it's moving extremely slowly.