HDD cause frame dips?

[JacktheHack994]

So I recently upgraded to a 3060 ti from a 1650 super which was able to run every game as I would expect a 1650 super to. However, my new card has frequent frame hitches for no reason. Even when I drop the graphics relatively low, it still happens. Also, in Forza Horizon 5, the extreme textures have pixelated rainbows on them and frame drops also still occur. I was wondering if this could be happening because of my hard drives speed or if it may be damaged. I have check the other hardware components thoroughly and they seem to be working fine. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Id take a look at disk usage in task manager, but I wouldn't be surprised if the hdd is just too slow for some modern games, esp those that need to continuously load textures in.

 

You can try a defrag to speed it up a bit. I doub't  the hdd is damaged, normally is much worst than a few dropped frames.

[JacktheHack994]

Seagate BarraCuda 4TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch Sata 6 Gb/s 5400 RPM 256MB Cache For Computer Desktop PC – Frustration Free Packaging ST4000DMZ04/DM004 https://a.co/d/8ZGfFCU
 

This is the drive, I dont think it’s very old, do you think it could still be causing the problem?

[Levent]

7 minutes ago, JacktheHack994 said:

textures have pixelated rainbows on them and frame drops also still occur.

You are playing the game on Extreme graphics preset. It is a bug with the game, has been around ever since the day game launched. Its due to you running out of VRAM.

 

 

[JacktheHack994]

That is extremely helpful, thank you for telling me. 

[JacktheHack994]

34 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id take a look at disk usage in task manager, but I wouldn't be surprised if the hdd is just too slow for some modern games, esp those that need to continuously load textures in.

 

You can try a defrag to speed it up a bit. I doub't  the hdd is damaged, normally is much worst than a few dropped frames.

Seagate BarraCuda 4TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch Sata 6 Gb/s 5400 RPM 256MB Cache For Computer Desktop PC – Frustration Free Packaging ST4000DMZ04/DM004 https://a.co/d/8ZGfFCU
 

This is the drive, I dont think it’s very old, do you think it could still be causing the problem?

[Electronics Wizardy]

55 minutes ago, JacktheHack994 said:

Seagate BarraCuda 4TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch Sata 6 Gb/s 5400 RPM 256MB Cache For Computer Desktop PC – Frustration Free Packaging ST4000DMZ04/DM004 https://a.co/d/8ZGfFCU
 

This is the drive, I dont think it’s very old, do you think it could still be causing the problem?

That is a  smr drive, so they can be come very slow if they have to deal with moving the data around, but that seems unlike in a game when its all reads.

 

But games now are getting to the point that they need more io than a hdd can deliver, esp if you don't have much extra ram.

[JacktheHack994]

On 7/28/2022 at 9:06 PM, Electronics Wizardy said:

That is a  smr drive, so they can be come very slow if they have to deal with moving the data around, but that seems unlike in a game when its all reads.

 

But games now are getting to the point that they need more io than a hdd can deliver, esp if you don't have much extra ram.

So I started monitoring the drives performance when playing a different game, Sub Nautica Below Zero, because it is easier to run than Forza so the fps drops would be purely because of the drive problem if that were the case. When I had it downloaded on the hard drive, task manager would report a spike from anywhere to 15% to 80% usage whenever an fps stutter occurred. I transferred it to my boot SSD and the FPS stutters seem to have disappeared. I made sure to go to some new areas so that it would have the opportunity to load new areas of of the drive and still no stutters. Do you think this a clear case of the HDD being too slow or even damaged? Also, the first time I attempted to open it on the HDD, it had a momentary crash where it said it wasn't responding and then recovered. I don't know if that is relevant or not though. If this information makes any conformations in your mind about the drives health or whether it is fast enough, please tell me. Also, if you have any potential fix ideas I'd appreciate that as well, (I already tried CHKDSK and it said I didn't have perms to do it so...)