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Post by Dino Dave on May 24, 2016 15:33:31 GMT -5
You were right nash! I had a hard drive going crazy during lag spikes. It was my 2nd hdd tho, my non SSD. I wasn't watching that one this morning >.< Does that mean something special to you?
Thanks!
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Post by Nashiq on May 25, 2016 10:01:08 GMT -5
which one has windows installed on it? which has the game?
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Post by Dino Dave on May 25, 2016 10:19:36 GMT -5
Thanks for the reply!
To answer your questions:
Windows and the game are on Drive C:, the SSD.
Latest is a fix I'm optimistic about,but don't like. Pagefile is only on SSD, instead of storage drive.
Game starts great, then after 5 mins or so, as the "system" process takes up the memory, game starts to studder constantly, with every slight movement. So i figured was page file. Along with the spiking HDD issue, I elected to disable it's pagefile. That's where I am now. I hate using the main drive so much though. Maybe SSD makes my old wisdom obsolete with it's speed, but I was always taught to put pagefile on less used drive for what you're doing.
I tuned settings to the floor, 0 effect.
Turned connection speed down, 0 effect.
Validated install several times.
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Post by Nashiq on May 25, 2016 10:26:40 GMT -5
how much room does your SSD have? How much Ram is on your box? Have you defragged your non SSD lately?
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Post by Nashiq on May 25, 2016 10:39:11 GMT -5
What it may be is your video card doesn't have a lot of VRAM. when it runs out, it borrows from system. when system gets low, then it jumps into page file.
You could solve your issue by upgrading to 16gb of ddr3 ram for like 50 bucks. Ram is cheap. If you want to use the non solid state as a page file i'd try defragging it first.
is it a 7200, 5400 or 10k drive?
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Post by Dino Dave on May 25, 2016 16:45:31 GMT -5
The HDD was 5% fragmented, I defragged. I'll look into more mem, I have 12gb atm.  |
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Post by Nashiq on May 26, 2016 9:38:41 GMT -5
that's not fragmented enough to cause page file issues, the drive might just be going bad. 12gb should be enough.... very odd.
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Post by lordfail on May 27, 2016 10:49:55 GMT -5
This only happens during this game? HDD thrashing can be a sign of malware as well, I would find it odd that it only occurs during a specific game.
I would also look at other processes on your computer i.e. backup, windows updates, AV
You should be able to log this behavior using Windows logging and identify the cause, if you have two monitors you can probably watch real time.
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Post by kagero on Jul 8, 2016 8:22:42 GMT -5
Misky and I had something happen similar to this, we each run an AMD Radeon R9 390, and both of us had updated to a new driver version. She runs a Hybrid drive as her main and I run a solid state as main. Not sure if our secondary drives were going nuts though, but each of our systems slowed to snail speed after having the graphics driver crash out, couldn't even open up Google Chrome. Rebooted, all was well, until we started Ark then had the same thing happen. I ran a piece of software called, "Display Driver Uninstaller", generic name I know, but it does what AMD's uninstaller used to do and rips out all old versions (current version included) of drivers sticking around causing you potential issues, for all card types though, not just AMD. Restarted, installed a fresh install of the graphics drivers, and we were up and running again.
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I left my 80-something Survivor on Ragnarok, can we transfer our toons to AB or just start afresh? Very Happy to be Baaack!