PC loading slower

[Peregrine1]

Within the last 2 weeks or so I noticed things are loading much slower, but nothing seems to pop out as to why. My drives are fine (an hdd and a sata ssd, both appear to be fine in both appearance and checking their health in windows) no viruses that I've found (used a couple different antiviruses). Everything I've tried hasn't worked, Bios has xmp enabled, everything is seated properly, etc. The biggest example is Valorant taking forever to load in a match. For example, I usually just play Escalation and Team Deathmatch modes anymore, but Escalation will start while I'm still stuck loading, and when I do finally load, it's already begun and the next phase or 2 has already started, which is causing me to get afk penalties. But after reinstalling Valorant around the 2 weeks ago mark, other things started loading slower too, opening my browser, other applications/games, hell even booting is slower (my pc boots on the sata ssd not the hdd). I've tried uninstalling Valorant and Riot Vandguard but nothing changed. Also get freezing and stuttering the first few seconds as well when i finally load in. Network connection is good. I use ethernet and we have stable and good internet.

SPECS:
Ryzen 7 3700x
RTX 2060 6gb
32gb ddr4 3200mhz
MSI B550 Gaming Plus motherboard
Adata SU650 480gb ssd
4tb hdd

[Eggicus Roundplumpius]

Before anything, I'd just make sure you have a backup of the data you care about. It might not be a drive issue, but I'd eir on the side of caution anyway.

 

To start, I'd check a few things:

• Your memory usage and composition when running intense applications, like Valorant.
• Run a benchmark on your SATA SSD, and just see how it performs across the board (I'd use a program like CrystalDiskMark).
• Check for free space - how much do you have left on that SSD?
• Check the disk latency in Task Manager.

Report back and we'll see if any of that stands out!

[Peregrine1]

I looked with a friend last night, hardwareinfo showed everything was normal, temps were a little warm for idle on my cpu but its also really hot in my house this time of year so its ok, other than that everything was fine.I have about 70gb left on my ssd out of 480. Hdd is about half full, Task manager everything seemed ok, but i also dont know how to see the latency. Currently playing Content Warning and the memory is at 34%, CPU is around 56-62%. What benchmark should I use for my ssd? Ive never ran benchmarks before, Ive just seen some people use them like cinebench 

[Eggicus Roundplumpius]

15 hours ago, Peregrine1 said:

I looked with a friend last night, hardwareinfo showed everything was normal, temps were a little warm for idle on my cpu but its also really hot in my house this time of year so its ok, other than that everything was fine.I have about 70gb left on my ssd out of 480. Hdd is about half full, Task manager everything seemed ok, but i also dont know how to see the latency. Currently playing Content Warning and the memory is at 34%, CPU is around 56-62%. What benchmark should I use for my ssd? Ive never ran benchmarks before, Ive just seen some people use them like cinebench 

 For the disk latency, you can use Task Manager as shown here in my attached screenshot.

As for the disk benchmark, CrystalDiskMark can be downloaded from CrystalMark's website (just Google CrystalDiskMark and you'll probably find it).

 

Based on the results you already have, those results sound pretty reasonable although that memory usage is just a little lower than I'd typically expect - what version of Windows are you running on?

[Peregrine1]

Im running windows 11. The 1st and 2nd screenshots are my drives, 3rd is my ssd on crystal, 4th is my hdd

Edited May 12, 2024 by Peregrine1
Forgot to add some info

[Peregrine1]

Also today and last week or the week before I had a BSOD, I have no idea what caused them, I was just watching youtube. Nothing is faulty that I've noticed and my drivers all seem to be fine, never got em til recently and ive had this machine for almost 3 years, motherboard and ram are newer than the rest of the parts but only about a year (new as in new when bought, not recently released hardware)

[QuantumSingularity]

Run Memtest86 and do 8 passes or 2x4 passes if you use the free version. My bed is you are gonna get errors in at least 3 tests.

[Bjoolz]

Go to C:\Windows\Minidump and check if you have any minidump files. If you do, go back to the Windows folder and copy the Minidump folder itself to the Downloads folder (You can use the desktop if you don't have OneDrive syncing files). Zip the copied folder and attach it to a post. Please follow the instructions to the letter as Windows doesn't like you messing with files in this location.

[Peregrine1]

Here's the minidump, ill run memtest86 tonight

Minidump.zip

[Peregrine1]

Also when I used memtest86 on my usb drive it turned my usb into 2 sperate partitions and 1 partition was only 200 something mb, and the 2nd partition wasnt even useable, when I tried to format it, it was only 511mb

[Qrdello]

I wouldn't count out the ram, it can go down anytime, but it seems it's rather software-related issue. In worst case scenario you might be forced to do a clean windows install to see if it's changed anything.

Windows do get bloated quite easily and unexpectedly during it's liftetime and sometimes it's just one app you install that starts doing bollocks to your system and causing crashes. Some apps install more stuff into user interface than others and this itself can cause longer boots and both minor and major issues popping up with the system. Remember, that user account is quite tightly connected to the os itself and if things go haywire there they can affect the OS files. I always recommend to turn on the built in Admin account and if something does go wrong switch to it for a little while to see it it changes anything. It's as simple as typing in in the command line launched with admin privileges the following:

net user Administrator /active:yes

It should tell you that enabling the account was succesful. 

 

If that's not the case, I would still try reseating the hardware, clearing your CMOS, disabling any XMP profiles or O/C and checking. Sometimes your applied core values may decline overtime and cause system go unstable or sluggish.

[Peregrine1]

I reinstalled valorant on my ssd, much much better, at least with the game. I'll see how it goes from here. I also moved my heavily modded skyrim off my ssd, I'll see how it goes from here and I'll still try the things I havent done yet that you guys have suggested

[Peregrine1]

I did the test twice, no errors.

On 5/12/2024 at 12:39 AM, QuantumSingularity said:

Run Memtest86 and do 8 passes or 2x4 passes if you use the free version. My bed is you are gonna get errors in at least 3 tests.

 

MemTest86-Report-20240512-221231.html MemTest86-Report-20240513-063844.html

[QuantumSingularity]

Well, i certainly wasn't expecting that. Which software did you use to check the HDD and SSD health ?

[Peregrine1]

Windows built in health thing. Idk what all is out there and didnt see anything when looking it up, but I didnt look for very long

[Peregrine1]

Update, moving Valorant to my ssd solved the issues, obviously with the game being slow, but also my pc being slower in general. I have no idea why, because everything i tried never helped, all the testing n everything. But lo and behold, that works lmao. Thank you to everyone for suggestions and willingness to help