Rust FPS drops

[SebastianD]

Hello,

I have seen a few posts regarding rust lagging, however I haven't seen any quite like mine.  My fps drop really low very frequently as much as every few seconds and they will drop down and just completely freeze for a few seconds, it will also drop when moving or pulling out an item.  I have also noticed it takes longer to load whether its into the server or teleporting somewhere.   I was playing the game completely normal one day then all of a sudden the next day it started doing it.  It has also just happened to a friend recently on the game.  I had it downloaded on a laptop with 16GB RAM and it was running perfectly fine.  My computer is a desktop with 16GB or RAM as well.  When I play the game with task manager open I notice right as my FPS drop my HDD jumps to 100% usage.  I have Rust downloaded on my SSD.  I have done some research and some people have mentioned the HDD might be a paging file which it is according to task manager.  I have tried disabling it but it has no difference.  Some people have given some recommendations on what to change in steam for start up but they all have no effect.  I just thought it might be time to step up to 32GB RAM but I cannot understand why it happens to my desktop but not laptop? Any ideas?  

My Specs:

Ryzen 7 2700X

EVGA 2080 Super FTW3 Hybrid OC

Asus Prime x570-p

Patriot Viper 16GB 3600mHz CL17 (running at 3200Mhz because I didn't look at the 2700X) 2 Sticks

Seagate 2TB HDD and WD black sn750 500GB

Thank you for taking the time to read this.