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  1. I agree in principle, but I'll often need it open for looking things up etc and I've not found it practical to entirely close and re-open it every time.
  2. Hey, thanks for this, that looks like a really useful piece of software that I haven't seen before! I'll certainly use it. Just a quick update for anyone still reading this - it's looking more and more like a Disk 1 queue length issue, with sudden spikes in queue length which, because it's queue length on the OS' drive, completely kills the I/O for a brief moment. More below. Good question on the SSD - I'm not certain that Disk 1 (C:) is good. As we can see here, the SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB isn't performing very well. I totally unplugged all the drives last night, swapped the cables for new ones and changed the SATA ports they were plugged into, and got the same results. I don't think it's a happy drive. Background processes is a tough one to nail down. I've spent many, many hours with Performance Monitor on, watching the graph for a spike in queue length, and though I've seen spikes, I've not been able to attribute the spike to any one process, unless it's Chrome, which it could be.... the attached screenshot does show three Chrome images with high write speeds, and that's installed on C:... I'd love to hear your thoughts, but I'm circling the concept of a PC upgrade this week. I'm not trying to solve a problem by throwing money at it, an upgrade was on the horizon for me sooner rather than later so I may bring that forward.
  3. Good call - so, Disk 1 (C:) is my boot and OS drive, a Sandisk SSD Plus. Disk 0 (A:) is a 970 EVO exclusively used for games, Warframe included. I guess the thing that's tripping me up is why Disk 1 takes such a huge hit for a few seconds during gameplay, when there's nothing Warframe-related on that drive. I did an SSD defrag via Windows, is there a better tool you'd recommend? Thanks for your help.
  4. Thanks, I'll have a look at the AIDA64 scanner now. I'm at the point of installing an entirely fresh copy of Windows on a new SSD (this one is a few years old and a little small). However, if I'm going that far, I may as well start on my hardware refresh (CPU, RAM, Mobo) a few months earlier than predicted. So if I can't figure this drive spike out by the end of the weekend, I think we'll be throwing the baby out with the bath water.
  5. Yes to the first, as best I can, everything looked good on CrystalDisk. I've turned off as many Windows 10 processes as I dare, all the Cortana bs, the game bar, superfetch, auto updates etc. Anything specific come to mind?
  6. Hi everyone, Long time lurker, first time caller. I'm at my wits' end with this one, and I'm hoping you can help. Let's start with some specs: Intel i7-7700k 32 GB Corsair Vengeance RAM @ 2400MHz Asus Strix Z270-F Asus Strix 2080ti Sandisk ~100 GB SSD (Boot) Samsung 970 EVO 500 GB (Games) Corsair RM650x Windows 10 Version 1903 Other specs available on request, just ask. For the past week or perhaps two, I've been experiencing a really frustrating FPS drop in Warframe that lasts a few seconds, but is constant and unpredictable. This takes my game from a stable 120fps all the way down to 4-10fps immediately, linger for a few seconds as a slideshow, and then resume normal refresh rates. This happens sometimes after half an hour, sometimes I'll have it happen multiple times in a few minutes, and it'll happen regardless of if I'm playing alone or with others. After spending some time with Task Manager open, waiting for it to happen again, I've recorded a few examples here: Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 What is immediately obvious from the above images is that the dip in CPU and GPU (and potentially network?) corresponds with a sharp rise in Disk 1. However, after spending time with Resource Monitor observing the disk activity, it doesn't seem like that sharp rise is attributed to any process. It's also occurring on the C: drive, my boot drive, though Warframe is installed on the A: drive. Here's an example of a massive rise in disk activity: Example 4 When I look in the Event Viewer, nothing seems to correspond with a rise in disk activity. I have however gone through all errors I possibly can and cleaned them up over the past couple of days to no avail, no noticeable change. I've also gone through just about everything I've done to the hardware and reset things to stock, so no CPU or GPU overclocks in case they were unstable. Temperatures are good, there's plenty of available memory so I doubt it's a RAM/pagefile issue, both the CPU and GPU are nowhere near capacity either, I'm stumped. I'd love it if you were able to help, even if it were to point me at a tool that would be able to graph exactly which program/process/image is actually creating the huge spike in activity. Please! Thanks for your time.
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