Been playing Dead Island co-op with a mate lately and to say our loading times are different is an understatement. It takes me around 3x the time to load each new area compared to him. He has the exact same cpu, gfx card and such as me. Same graphics settings ingame so its not a texture load issue. I have 6gb and he has 8gb ram, but that shouldnt be a major issue.
So I've got myself a defragmenting prog (perfect disc) and had a look. In general the hd is fine, but one file, an 830mb music file from Dead Island has 134 fragments. I set Perfect Disk to defrag this file specifically and it came back with more fragments once finished. I tried a full hd defrag and no change. I tried the steam defrag too and no change. Everything comes up saying the files are fine.
This is obv frustrating as my mate uses an external drive to play games off, and I have a 2x500gb striped raid as my games drive, so should be outpacing him! The raid also currently has 320gb / 931gb space so no congestion. Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong, or maybe a better defrag program lol. I'm pretty convinced its that single file that causing the problems loading.
So I've got myself a defragmenting prog (perfect disc) and had a look. In general the hd is fine, but one file, an 830mb music file from Dead Island has 134 fragments. I set Perfect Disk to defrag this file specifically and it came back with more fragments once finished. I tried a full hd defrag and no change. I tried the steam defrag too and no change. Everything comes up saying the files are fine.
This is obv frustrating as my mate uses an external drive to play games off, and I have a 2x500gb striped raid as my games drive, so should be outpacing him! The raid also currently has 320gb / 931gb space so no congestion. Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong, or maybe a better defrag program lol. I'm pretty convinced its that single file that causing the problems loading.
