Disk usage 100% when playing games

[PaNDark]

Hey
First of all, I'm playing on my Lenovo Ideapad 320-151kb laptop with these specs:
i5 8250U
Ram: 8Gb
Hard disk: ST1000LM035-1RK172
GPU: GeForce MX150

 

The problem is whenever I play games my hard disk usage goes 100% and the game begin to stutter so much I can't even play the game

I know it's not a high-end laptop but i don't play heavy games. For example, I play battlefield4, valorant, csgo, league of legends

I don't have an fps problem in any of these games and I have more than 100 in most of these, but the stuttering makes them unplayable

any toughts?
 

 

[flibberdipper]

If I had to place an educated guess, I'd just say that the drive can't cope with Windows and the games streaming in assets. I've got the 2TB version of that drive and it's really only barely adequate as a dedicated game drive.

[Apemanonline]

Tried defraging it? Windows options type defrag in the search, Then its select the correct drive etc.

 

 

[PaNDark]

Just now, Apemanonline said:

Tried defraging it? Windows options type defrag in the search, Then its select the correct drive etc.

 

 

Yeah actually i tried that

i even disabled harddisk related services like Superfetch

[camieabz]

Also consider setting a minimum and maximum swapfile sizes, depending on current disk space and Windows swapfile size. Part of the problem might be swapfile resizing, which is creating a lot of disk/CPU activity.

 

512MB minimum and 8192MB(8GB)  maximum is a good place to start. If performance gets worse, increase the min to 2048MB or 4096MB (2GB and 4GB). If that's no good, you can always revert to Windows managed swapfile. None of this will deal with disk speed issues, but it might reduce the overhead of disk activity.

[Apemanonline]

You may have to upgrade to ssd large spinners spec laptop drive that run slower than the larger 3.5 will take longer to spin up and seek to the file. I had a quick look and it there seems to be a M2 slot on your laptop this is only from a picture i found of the mobo and it wasnt clear if it was just for a wifi card. if you can a 250 gb just for the os and frequent games wouldnt break the bank. If not then its a direct replacement for a 2.5 ssd.but there not cheap 80 quid ish for a 1tb

[PaNDark]

4 minutes ago, camieabz said:

Also consider setting a minimum and maximum swapfile sizes, depending on current disk space and Windows swapfile size. Part of the problem might be swapfile resizing, which is creating a lot of disk/CPU activity.

 

512MB minimum and 8192MB(8GB)  maximum is a good place to start. If performance gets worse, increase the min to 2048MB or 4096MB (2GB and 4GB). If that's no good, you can always revert to Windows managed swapfile. None of this will deal with disk speed issues, but it might reduce the overhead of disk activity.

i'll try it thank you

[PaNDark]

3 minutes ago, Apemanonline said:

You may have to upgrade to ssd large spinners spec laptop drive that run slower than the larger 3.5 will take longer to spin up and seek to the file. I had a quick look and it there seems to be a M2 slot on your laptop this is only from a picture i found of the mobo and it wasnt clear if it was just for a wifi card. if you can a 250 gb just for the os and frequent games wouldnt break the bank. If not then its a direct replacement for a 2.5 ssd.but there not cheap 80 quid ish for a 1tb

SSD is the solution in most of the cases i know. But the thing is i just think my system spec is'nt that low that can't handle bf4 or similar medium games

 

[Mark Kaine]

it should definitely not do that, sounds like there's an issue with the disc drive itself somehow, or the connection to it. 

 

 

I have a very similar laptop, standard WD blue drive (which I recently exchanged to a Toshiba drive that I didn't even test yet) and no such problems, low resolution, but barely any stutters... 

 

So yeah a ssd might fix it, but the issue may be something else or another hard drive would fix it - I definitely didn't change the swap file - it's not something that should be done on modern windows, people only do this when they're desperate and know no other 'fix'. 

 

[PaNDark]

2 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

it should definitely not do that, sounds like there's an issue with the disc drive itself somehow, or the connection to it. 

 

 

I have a very similar laptop, standard WD blue drive (which I recently exchanged to a Toshiba drive that I didn't even test yet) and no such problems, low resolution, but barely any stutters... 

 

So yeah a ssd might fix it, but the issue may be something else or another hard drive would fix it - I definitely didn't change the swap file - it's not something that should be done on modern windows, people only do this when they're desperate and know no other 'fix'. 

 

 

Its really weird i monitored my disk usage while gaming and kinda nothing using it.

there is a process called System and it writes ALL THE TIME. Even when im just watching a movie or searching some stuff hdd goes 100%.

I Disabled windows update and stuff so i have no idea what is the problem