Windows 8.1 100% Disk Usage

[DopeZach]

This is my system 

 

GTX 770

 

i5-4670 CPU @3.40 GHz

 

8.00 GB RAM 

 

Driver version: 334.89

 

OS: Windows 8.1 Pro

 

and all I will be doing is downloading something on steam and I can't even play any games or even browse the internet barely while it's downloading. Just downloading something will make my disk go to 100%.

[Tmh85]

What Hard drive do you have?

[DopeZach]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145167

[trama09]

Try running your anti-virus program; see if anything comes up and go from there.

[KingLuvely]

Mine does the same. I have Avast and it still runs at 100% disk sometimes. I figured it's because my hard drive sucked though. Toshiba MK2555GSXN 250GB in my laptop.

[trama09]

What do you guys mean the disk runs at 100%? It's continuously spinning? Or your system memory (RAM) is at 100%? Slowing things down.

[KingLuvely]

What do you guys mean the disk runs at 100%? It's continuously spinning? Or your system memory (RAM) is at 100%? Slowing things down.

Like if you open task manager to see what the CPU, RAM, and Disk are running on it says 100% usage. Like this but with 100% instead of 99%. http://gyazo.com/3f29e006e154bd3c81cebb09d94d45df

[trama09]

Like if you open task manager to see what the CPU, RAM, and Disk are running on it says 100% usage. Like this but with 100% instead of 99%. http://gyazo.com/3f29e006e154bd3c81cebb09d94d45df

Windows8 automatically manages virtual memory and paging file size by default.

It doesn't sets virtual memory as per the internal recommendation. The virtual memory set by default is approximately 70% of the recommendation. E.g. For my laptop, it recommends 2003MB of virtual memory wherein each drive size is of 100GB & RAM is 3GB. By default it got set to 1403MB when Windows8 was installed.

You need to increase this virtual memory. Make it equivalent to your RAM size for the initial size and twice of the initial size in maximum size and make sure you have the same amount of free space in your hard drive in each drive.

To do this, follow the following steps:

1. Go to Control Panel> All control panel items > System

2. Click on Advanced system settings

3. Under performance, click on settings

4. Go to Advanced tab

5. Under Virtual memory, click on Change

6. UN-check "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" check box

7. Select your windows drive (where OS is installed)

8. Click on Custom size radio button

9. Set Initial size equivalent to your RAM size in MB

10. Set Maximum size to twice of your RAM size in MB

11. Click on Set

12. Click on OK thrice

13. Restart your system

[KingLuvely]

Windows8 automatically manages virtual memory and paging file size by default.

It doesn't sets virtual memory as per the internal recommendation. The virtual memory set by default is approximately 70% of the recommendation. E.g. For my laptop, it recommends 2003MB of virtual memory wherein each drive size is of 100GB & RAM is 3GB. By default it got set to 1403MB when Windows8 was installed.

You need to increase this virtual memory. Make it equivalent to your RAM size for the initial size and twice of the initial size in maximum size and make sure you have the same amount of free space in your hard drive in each drive.

To do this, follow the following steps:

1. Go to Control Panel> All control panel items > System

2. Click on Advanced system settings

3. Under performance, click on settings

4. Go to Advanced tab

5. Under Virtual memory, click on Change

6. UN-check "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" check box

7. Select your windows drive (where OS is installed)

8. Click on Custom size radio button

9. Set Initial size equivalent to your RAM size in MB

10. Set Maximum size to twice of your RAM size in MB

11. Click on Set

12. Click on OK thrice

13. Restart your system

That seemed to do the trick! Thanks dude! 

[TheProfosist]

100% disk usage but nothing transfering happened to me even without a page file it was due to not have 8.1 drivers but 8 since I upgraded from 8 to 8.1 on that pc.