Excessive hard drive access

boxley · 5 Dec 2008 at 19:13

Hi, I recently bought fallout 3 and every time i play my system decides that its going to go into meltdown and try and access the hard drive constantly.

i had a look into resource manager and system is writing about 200mb per min to the hard drive and is infact accessing the disk a lot more than fallout! Im guessing that its probably a page file thing, but i still have at least 10% free ram, is the lack of free ram still likely to cause problems or is it possibly something else?

System:
Vostro 1700
2GB ram
T7300 2.0 Ghz
160gb HDD 5400rpm, 70% used

Many thanks for any help you can give!!

MikeHunt79 · 5 Dec 2008 at 19:32

Are you running Vista?

Duke · 5 Dec 2008 at 19:34

What graphics card do you have?

helmutcheese · 5 Dec 2008 at 19:37

If Vista, its asked a lot so use SEARCH, you should get some results with links to taming down HDD in Vista.

boxley · 5 Dec 2008 at 19:38

yep running vista premium and with a geforce 8600 gt on board

boxley · 5 Dec 2008 at 19:43

have to say im having a hard time finding anything similar in the forums, but im probably just useless at looking!

MikeHunt79 · 5 Dec 2008 at 19:47

boxley said:
running vista premium

There's your problem right there...

MagicBoy · 5 Dec 2008 at 19:49

MikeHunt79 said:
There's your problem right there...

Agreed.

helmutcheese · 5 Dec 2008 at 19:54

helmutcheese said:
Vista will thrash your HDD for approx 3 days till Indexing is all done and Superfetch sorted out.

You can help by totally killing indexing and System Restore.

Also adding a Readyboost USB Drive helps tame it a tad more.

I hate indexing and have never used it on XP or Vista, my searches that I rarely do take a few seconds longer, you do not want to listen to random indexing with 2 Raptors X'x all the time.

Do this in Picture (mainly 2nd one).

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http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/59886-hard-drive-speed-boosts.html?filter

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67600-low-disk-space-warning-vista.html