Personal computing discussed
synthtel2 wrote:What's the game that has the issue? Does it launch through Steam, or something else?
Acidicheartburn wrote:synthtel2 wrote:What's the game that has the issue? Does it launch through Steam, or something else?
The game is Fistful of Frags, a Source Engine game that launches through steam. It's the only Source Engine game that I have this issue with. I would assume it's a fluke and just deal with it if I didn't already know other people who don't have this issue with either program launching incredibly slow.
just brew it! wrote:Acidicheartburn wrote:synthtel2 wrote:What's the game that has the issue? Does it launch through Steam, or something else?
The game is Fistful of Frags, a Source Engine game that launches through steam. It's the only Source Engine game that I have this issue with. I would assume it's a fluke and just deal with it if I didn't already know other people who don't have this issue with either program launching incredibly slow.
Any chance it is trying to phone home to a badly overloaded server?
just brew it! wrote:Maybe the game just has a weird pattern of disk accesses (writes) during startup that gets tripped up by a SSD that hasn't been properly TRIMmed. I still think there's a problem with TRIM not working correctly on your system. Everything you've posted so far hints at that being the case.
just brew it! wrote:Are you running the latest firmware for your drive?
Bereven wrote:Acidicheartburn wrote:I don't have any antivirus (at the moment) that could be causing a slowdown.
What's the problem? Choose an antivirus that has a good rating, reviews and use it. The main thing the base was actual, to monitor, update.
DragonDaddyBear wrote:Are you are you don't have AV? I would be shocked if you don't have at least Windows Defender. Check to see if you do and out in an exception for it if you do
Acidicheartburn wrote:I would never trust just Windows Defender as my sole AV.
Acidicheartburn wrote:I'm at a complete loss on this one. Both Steam and one other specific game take at least a minute to start. .
whatsryancookin2002 wrote:Acidicheartburn wrote:I'm at a complete loss on this one. Both Steam and one other specific game take at least a minute to start. .
I have the same problem with Steam but only on my laptop (runs fine on the desktop).
My laptop is an i7 with 8GB RAM and Nvidia 940MX graphics card. The desktop is an i7 9700k with 16BG RAM and GTX950. Both run Windows 10 Professional.
Crucially, my laptop only has a HDD while the desktop has a SSD. Could this be the culprit?
just brew it! wrote:Do not underestimate the effect of latency. While STR is typically off by only a single-digit factor between SSD and HDD, seek latency can be a killer. Unless you are dealing with pure sequential workloads you are potentially looking at orders of magnitude performance differences.
whatsryancookin2002 wrote:just brew it! wrote:Do not underestimate the effect of latency. While STR is typically off by only a single-digit factor between SSD and HDD, seek latency can be a killer. Unless you are dealing with pure sequential workloads you are potentially looking at orders of magnitude performance differences.
I flipped over my laptop yesterday and realized that I can change the HDD and switch to a SSD.
Would it be worth the time and investment? I would still need to keep a HDD connected at all times. I produce music occassionally and the samples alone are about 300GB+
just brew it! wrote:whatsryancookin2002 wrote:I flipped over my laptop yesterday and realized that I can change the HDD and switch to a SSD.
Would it be worth the time and investment? I would still need to keep a HDD connected at all times. I produce music occassionally and the samples alone are about 300GB+
It should provide a noticeable performance improvement, but it is really up to you whether the hassle of needing to keep an external HDD connected to do music production is worth it. Cost of a small HDD plus external drive or drive dock/enclosure is probably gonna put you most of the way to the cost of a larger SSD, so maybe just go for a larger SSD?
I still favor smaller SSD + large HDD for desktop systems due to the cost/capacity issue; but for laptops it's SSD all the way.
Acidicheartburn wrote:I don't have any antivirus (at the moment) that could be causing a slowdown.