Is my HDD causing performance issues?

CforCorn · March 3, 2015

I built my new pc a few months ago and for the most part it has been running good, but I have noticed performance issues in some games that I try to play. Mainly i get stuttering in games like Skyrim, Fallout, SWTOR. I have an i5-4690k and a GTX 970 so I just don't see why I should be getting these issues. However, I bought a 3tb Western Digital Green drive to use as mass storage for my games. Could this drive be what is causing these stuttering issues?

Jaybird · March 3, 2015

its unlikely your harddrive. I have a 3770k and an 670 and had stuttering in skyrim. its just a terribly optimized game. check you fps, you made need to turn the detail down when your in those trees.

dadasmithywinkle · March 3, 2015

I built my new pc a few months ago and for the most part it has been running good, but I have noticed performance issues in some games that I try to play. Mainly i get stuttering in games like Skyrim, Fallout, SWTOR. I have an i5-4690k and a GTX 970 so I just don't see why I should be getting these issues. However, I bought a 3tb Western Digital Green drive to use as mass storage for my games. Could this drive be what is causing these stuttering issues?

Welcome ot the forums!

Try reinstalling the GPU drivers.

Mighty_Miro_WD · March 4, 2015

Hi there @CforCorn!

It pretty much depends on what what you play. Basically, a hard drive cannot give you general performance lagging, but only a loading times lag - for instance when you walk from an area in the game to another, the map data has to be loaded into memory from the HDD.

That's why I would suggest to try updating the GPU drivers, like @dadasmithywinkle suggested.

Hope this helps.

Cheers!