computer What Is This PC Doing?!

[B-Boy-Drake]

What is up Tech Nerds, I got a conundrum for yall!

So I have been slowing working on my pc for 3+ years now and I do not claim to be any sort of expert.

The PC I have been building is always a work in progress, Here is a Gyazo of my "dxdiag"

GYAZO

Now I am not here to show off a build or anything, I am sure linus could easily laugh at half my hardware and whip out one that could eat mine for breakfast in a hour.

I use this pc for streaming, College Homework, Video Editing, you name it!
I have a 250gb SSD and a 2tb hard drive and a 1tb hard drive. 
SSD = OS 2TB = Games and HW Files and Editing Softwares 1TB = Video Files

My games have been having excessive load times such as rust taking 30+ minutes to just load into a server from when I open the game. So when I am trying to twitch stream you can see where I get frustrated and hate having to make people watching sit there and watch paint try instead of games. Fortnite earlier today had playdo textures and games like B-OPs 4 is not even loading in full textures in main menu and even the enemies unless I sit and wait 10 minutes for my pc to catch up.

I feel this is a hard drive issue and I am planning on buying a 2TB SSD to put my games on and run them and this should also fix my load times. RIGHT?!?!?!?!

Someone please tell me if im wrong or any advice anyone can offer. Google hasnt been helpfull so maybe you amazing people will be

[Zando_]

SSD won't fix the load times if they're that wacky. Games load about 3-5 seconds faster off an SSD than an HDD for me, except for Star Citizen which is a lot better on an SSD. What are your full specs? 

[Crunchy Dragon]

-Moved to Troubleshooting-

[B-Boy-Drake]

3 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

SSD won't fix the load times if they're that wacky. Games load about 3-5 seconds faster off an SSD than an HDD for me, except for Star Citizen which is a lot better on an SSD. What are your full specs? 

I just thought it might chance things since when I had premier on my SSD I had significantly increased time of premier starting up.

I have a Ryzen 7 1700x, gtx 1080 (normal), 16gb ram, and hard drives are listed.

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, B-Boy-Drake said:

I just thought it might chance things since when I had premier on my SSD I had significantly increased time of premier starting up.

I have a Ryzen  1700x, gtx 1080 (normal), 16gb ram, and hard drives are listed.

Have you tried the good old "reinstall windows" yet? This seems like a pretty weird issue, it's not like you're hitting a RAM limit and offloading that to the HDD or something. I have similar specs, R7 2700X, Vega FE, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD, 2TB HDD, 1TB HDD. Haven't had any weird issues like that with it. Is it only specific games or everything? You could always try verifying the game files with steam or whatever client manages them. While you're at it, make sure your BIOS is up to date, there were a crap ton of bug fixes and such for Gen 1 Ryzen. 

[B-Boy-Drake]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

Have you tried the good old "reinstall windows" yet? This seems like a pretty weird issue, it's not like you're hitting a RAM limit and offloading that to the HDD or something. I have similar specs, R7 2700X, Vega FE, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD, 2TB HDD, 1TB HDD. Haven't had any weird issues like that with it. Is it only specific games or everything? You could always try verifying the game files with steam or whatever client manages them. While you're at it, make sure your BIOS is up to date, there were a crap ton of bug fixes and such for Gen 1 Ryzen. 

What do I do for BIOS update check? I was debating checking all that stuff but its so annoying and overwhelming and when I do it it just causes more problems XD. 

And yes its with just about everything I have running off my HDD.

 

[Brooksie359]

If you haven't updated your bios before then it's almost a guarantee that it's out of date. Just go to the motherboard website and look for your motherboard and find the support page. It should have drivers and other software available one of which would be the newest bios. Most motherboards allow you to flash from a usb so you can just download the bios uncompress the files and put them on your usb drive. Then you just need to find the place in the bios where it lets you flash from a usb and pick the bios file from the usb.

[AngryBeaver]

17 minutes ago, B-Boy-Drake said:

What is up Tech Nerds, I got a conundrum for yall!

So I have been slowing working on my pc for 3+ years now and I do not claim to be any sort of expert.

The PC I have been building is always a work in progress, Here is a Gyazo of my "dxdiag"

GYAZO

Now I am not here to show off a build or anything, I am sure linus could easily laugh at half my hardware and whip out one that could eat mine for breakfast in a hour.

I use this pc for streaming, College Homework, Video Editing, you name it!
I have a 250gb SSD and a 2tb hard drive and a 1tb hard drive. 
SSD = OS 2TB = Games and HW Files and Editing Softwares 1TB = Video Files

My games have been having excessive load times such as rust taking 30+ minutes to just load into a server from when I open the game. So when I am trying to twitch stream you can see where I get frustrated and hate having to make people watching sit there and watch paint try instead of games. Fortnite earlier today had playdo textures and games like B-OPs 4 is not even loading in full textures in main menu and even the enemies unless I sit and wait 10 minutes for my pc to catch up.

I feel this is a hard drive issue and I am planning on buying a 2TB SSD to put my games on and run them and this should also fix my load times. RIGHT?!?!?!?!

Someone please tell me if im wrong or any advice anyone can offer. Google hasnt been helpfull so maybe you amazing people will be

First, it could be the drive is starting to die and you are getting bad sectors which are causing slow downs. It could also be the drive is starting to get full so your data isn't being stored in adjacent sectors. I would try running a defrag on the drive in case that is part of your problem.

 

I would also try running a chkdsk with fix errors enable and if you see it fixed more than say 10 errors you might consider running chkdsk /r on it... which can take a long time. I ran it on a failing drive once and it took 6 days lol. It was a 4tb drive though and luckily I was able to get the data off it before it died.

[Zando_]

Just now, B-Boy-Drake said:

What do I do for BIOS update check? I was debating checking all that stuff but its so annoying and overwhelming and when I do it it just causes more problems XD. 

And yes its with just about everything I have running off my HDD.

 

What HDD model/speed then? And for the BIOS update, you should be able to go to your mobo's page on the manufacturer website, then support, and they have the drivers and BIOS update stuff there. 

[B-Boy-Drake]

Just now, AngryBeaver said:

First, it could be the drive is starting to die and you are getting bad sectors which are causing slow downs. It could also be the drive is starting to get full so your data isn't being stored in adjacent sectors. I would try running a defrag on the drive in case that is part of your problem.

 

I would also try running a chkdsk with fix errors enable and if you see it fixed more than say 10 errors you might consider running chkdsk /r on it... which can take a long time. I ran it on a failing drive once and it took 6 days lol. It was a 4tb drive though and luckily I was able to get the data off it before it died.

How do I run those things? I havent done that before. The most ive done is partition a hard drive and doc them or whatever its called.

[B-Boy-Drake]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

What HDD model/speed then? And for the BIOS update, you should be able to go to your mobo's page on the manufacturer website, then support, and they have the drivers and BIOS update stuff there. 

How do I check what hard drive it is? I am streaming atm so if I can just check something reall quick I will

[Zando_]

2 minutes ago, B-Boy-Drake said:

How do I check what hard drive it is? I am streaming atm so if I can just check something reall quick I will

Oof, I usually just know what model I have, IDK if you can check it from the OS. Try looking in task manager and see what it says about the HDD, IIRC it might tell you the RPM, but I don't remember. 

[AngryBeaver]

Just now, B-Boy-Drake said:

How do I run those things? I havent done that before. The most ive done is partition a hard drive and doc them or whatever its called.

You can run both of these items pretty easily by right clicking on the drives and going to properties. Then selecting the tools tab. I would try the defragment first. If there is a low of fragmentation then chances are that might have been your problem, but if the speeds are still slow I would try the error checking next. If you have lots of errors... then you can do a deep repair on it by doing the following.

 

Click on search and type cmd  right click command prompt and run as administrator.  From there you will need to know the letter of the drive you are having issues with.. for example F.  So you would type F: to switch to that drive. Then type chkdsk /r  and hit enter. From there you just have to wait for it to complete, which could be days depending on the state of the drive.

 

[TechyBen]

HDDScan will tell you the SMART of the drives (only use the SMART option!). Sounds like a drive is failing to me. Though could be a loose SATA cable.

[B-Boy-Drake]

5 hours ago, AngryBeaver said:

You can run both of these items pretty easily by right clicking on the drives and going to properties. Then selecting the tools tab. I would try the defragment first. If there is a low of fragmentation then chances are that might have been your problem, but if the speeds are still slow I would try the error checking next. If you have lots of errors... then you can do a deep repair on it by doing the following.

 

Click on search and type cmd  right click command prompt and run as administrator.  From there you will need to know the letter of the drive you are having issues with.. for example F.  So you would type F: to switch to that drive. Then type chkdsk /r  and hit enter. From there you just have to wait for it to complete, which could be days depending on the state of the drive.

 

nothing to optimize but my ssd so maybe my OS will run faster. Thinking about just going wit the buying new hard drive option.

[B-Boy-Drake]

5 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

Oof, I usually just know what model I have, IDK if you can check it from the OS. Try looking in task manager and see what it says about the HDD, IIRC it might tell you the RPM, but I don't remember. 

I think the RPM is 7200

[B-Boy-Drake]

5 hours ago, AngryBeaver said:

First, it could be the drive is starting to die and you are getting bad sectors which are causing slow downs. It could also be the drive is starting to get full so your data isn't being stored in adjacent sectors. I would try running a defrag on the drive in case that is part of your problem.

 

I would also try running a chkdsk with fix errors enable and if you see it fixed more than say 10 errors you might consider running chkdsk /r on it... which can take a long time. I ran it on a failing drive once and it took 6 days lol. It was a 4tb drive though and luckily I was able to get the data off it before it died.

There were no errors btw. Only on my ssd if that matters