Why is my computer very slow

[axel jansson]

I got a problem with my computer, every time after i play black ops cold war or gta 5 my computer gets extremely slow and its unusable. chrome is not answering and discord lags and spotify stops and freezes totaly. its just very slow after I played those games. 

why do this happen and how do I prevent it? 

The only storage I got is a 7 year old 1tb seagate barracuda hdd, is that why?

 

specs if it matters:

Gtx 1660 Ti 

Ryzen 5 2600

msi b450 tomahawk max

kingston 2x8gb 3200mhz

corsair cx 500

[wall03]

temp?

 

yes it's the HDD.

replace it with an SSD. I worry the HDD is failing and recommend backing it up

[axel jansson]

1 minute ago, wall03 said:

temp?

 

yes it's the HDD.

replace it with an SSD. I worry the HDD is failing and recommend backing it up

Ok i thought so...

[aDoomGuy]

Try this.

 

Open cmd as admin (search for in start manu and choose run as administrator) and run commands

 

chkdsk c: /f

Reboot and let it sort your drive out. When back into Windows open cmd the same way as before and run command

 

sfc /scannow

When that is done and if it say it fixed problems reboot the PC again. We have now scanned your hard drive sectors and your critical system files. Now to scan and possibly repair your Windows image.

 

When back in Windows once again open cmd as before and run commands (must be run exactly as is with large and small letters).

 

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /ScanHealth

 

When that is done and without reboot run this final command

 

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /RestoreHealth

 

Reboot your computer and at this time I advice you to defragment your drive and see if things improved.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

11 minutes ago, axel jansson said:

Ok i thought so...

Most likely failing HDD if it's constantly freezing and locking up. Though I should warn you that any modern OS even Linux to some extent will not fair well with a HDD as a boot drive. So you should really invest in a SSD for boot and HDD for mass storage and some games. 

[axel jansson]

6 minutes ago, aDoomGuy said:

Try this.

 

Open cmd as admin (search for in start manu and choose run as administrator) and run commands

 

chkdsk c: /f

Reboot and let it sort your drive out. When back into Windows open cmd the same way as before and run command

 

sfc /scannow

When that is done and if it say it fixed problems reboot the PC again. We have now scanned your hard drive sectors and your critical system files. Now to scan and possibly repair your Windows image.

 

When back in Windows once again open cmd as before and run commands (must be run exactly as is with large and small letters).

 

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /ScanHealth

 

When that is done and without reboot run this final command

 

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /RestoreHealth

 

Reboot your computer and at this time I advice you to defragment your drive and see if things improved.

ill try that thank you!

[axel jansson]

6 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Most likely failing HDD if it's constantly freezing and locking up. Though I should warn you that any modern OS even Linux to some extent will not fair well with a HDD as a boot drive. So you should really invest in a SSD for boot and HDD for mass storage and some games. 

yeah probably