Weird HDD bottlenecking??

[kvn95]

I have an Acer Aspire E15, it has i5 4210M, 4gb RAM, 1tb HDD, and 940m (2gb ddr3). It didn't ship with windows as I already had a copy.

 

Turned out, the copy I had was Enterprise edition. I installed it anyway, and the laptop word as expected, and all the games that I played (GTA V, Dirt RALLY, Skyrim) all worked smoothly at reasonable settings (around 720p, medium).

 

When I installed the Windows 10 Home edition, Skyrim and Dirt works fine, but as soon as I start playing GTA V, the whole game gives me massive framedrops (15-10 fps from steady 40). The game settings doesn't seem to matter with regard to frame drop - at 1080p low, the game runs at 30fps, but after sometime the same thing happens. I'm experiencing similar issue with Battlefield 1.

 

Looking at the task manager when I'm playing the game, I observed that System was taking waay too much of HDD, and the framedrop correlates to the increase in System activity. When I right click and select properties, it shows the name ntoskrnl.exe which I suspect is the culprit. Basic googling suggested that I update all my drivers, the network card in particular, but it didn't help in my case.

 

Enterprise ran the games decently, I wonder what the problem with Home version is!!!

 

Any suggestion guys??

[Electronics Wizardy]

is the game recoder enabled?

[kvn95]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

is the game recoder enabled?

No it's not

[LogicalDrm]

Its bit odd that it worked fine before Win10. But I suspect you have tad too little RAM. Adding another 4gb if you have free slot could fix this.

[kvn95]

1 minute ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Its bit odd that it worked fine before Win10. But I suspect you have tad too little RAM. Adding another 4gb if you have free slot could fix this.

I know that, but it worked just fine on Enterprise edition! Why wouldn't it run on Home edition??

[LogicalDrm]

14 minutes ago, kvn95 said:

I know that, but it worked just fine on Enterprise edition! Why wouldn't it run on Home edition??

Maybe Enterprice has better optimization for using RAM combined with pagefile. I don't know about GTAV, but BF series is really needy when it comes to both RAM and large pagefile.

[kvn95]

6 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Maybe Enterprice has better optimization for using RAM combined with pagefile. I don't know about GTAV, but BF series is really needy when it comes to both RAM and large pagefile.

Maybe. But I've seen videos of people running BF1 on low 720p and getting 30-40fps.

[LogicalDrm]

15 minutes ago, kvn95 said:

Maybe. But I've seen videos of people running BF1 on low 720p and getting 30-40fps.

RAM doesn't effect on FPS much. But it has pretty big effect on overall smoothness of game running.

[kvn95]

2 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

RAM doesn't effect on FPS much. But it has pretty big effect on overall smoothness of game running.

True. Running Witcher III on 4gb ram makes the whole game sluggish.