HDD use spike (Causing cod4 lag?)

marc69 · 15 Jan 2008 at 01:10

Hey guys,

Im back again with more information that could help to solve my COD4 lag issue.

I was playing COD4 again and i left nvidias ntune running in the background on the screen that shows resources used.

When i got the spike i quickly alt tabbed and snapped a screen shot:

http://i19.tinypic.com/6l0wkux.jpg

The problem looks like the HDD is spiking (Brand new WD 160gb)

Any ideas on what my next move should be?

Cupra · 15 Jan 2008 at 01:37

windows vista?

marc69 · 15 Jan 2008 at 02:23

Nope, im using XP (SP2)

marc69 · 15 Jan 2008 at 19:09

*Bump*

Still struggling

helmutcheese · 15 Jan 2008 at 19:12

New games ae big installs, defrag after installing if not already.

marc69 · 15 Jan 2008 at 21:45

I did try a defrag but i will try another one when i get some spare time.

Cheers

Participant · 15 Jan 2008 at 22:00

I get this on Vista X64. After a while, the HDD goes bananas for periods of ten seconds or so every so often, after which I am usually dead

. During this period it's extremely laggy, and sometimes pauses entirely for a few seconds.

I haven't bothered even looking for it as it's fairly rare and I'm hoping some kind of software update will fix it.

As it happens my HDDs are Western Digital also.

helmutcheese · 15 Jan 2008 at 22:15

Kill System Restore, Kill indexing, Tames HDD right down, fresh install takes approx 3 days to tame down with Superfetch etc.

I should know cause Raptor X's are not nice to listen to SEEKING all day long.

marc69 · 15 Jan 2008 at 22:28

"Kill System Restore, Kill indexing,"

Funnily enough i have just done that before i read your post. Lets see what its like when i get round to playing COD4 again.

Cheers

helmutcheese · 15 Jan 2008 at 23:12

I aint saying thats your fix, but it does Tame down the constant HDD activity in Vista.

sosrandom · 15 Jan 2008 at 23:34

Whats your memory usage before loading CoD4 up?

marc69 · 16 Jan 2008 at 09:06

Memory usage before COD4 is about 30% afaik.

marc69 · 16 Jan 2008 at 23:15

Played single player for a good few hours today with no spikes at all.

I play online for about 10 minutes and i get the same thing as what was happening before, HDD spiking.

This is really not fun anymore