SSD in game freezing

Renton · 11 Mar 2011 at 11:39

King
For me it happens on all games on both my drives if the operating system is on the SSD, I put my operating system back on my mechanical drive and the problem went away. I have not tried the operating system on mechanical drive and games on SSD yet but to me this is not what i wanted to do in the first place so I think ill be RMA,ing my SSD

Max3 · 11 Mar 2011 at 12:08

I played a bit of mafia II but didn't seem to have the 1 sec stutters. Must be something up with wow, ah well

hominid · 11 Mar 2011 at 13:33

No, it's definately the drive.

If I play an mp3 and then browse the internet the pausing is greatly reduced but it still does it. It also stutters doing basically anything, clicking on icons, opening folders, scrolling a web page all have a chace to have a 1 second stutter/pause.

hominid · 13 Mar 2011 at 03:40

I have just found a possible solution to this here: http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-S...eze-ups-in-Windows-7-solved-for-me/td-p/38766

I changed the settings outlined by making the registry file and adding it, so far it all seems good and I've yet to notice any pauses since changing it - although it's late and I'm way too tired.

Max3 · 13 Mar 2011 at 12:52

why do those regedits when you can just uninstall the intel rst? It seems to barely affect its performance anyways.

hominid · 13 Mar 2011 at 14:09

because the chipset enables it by default, so to stop the stuttering I had to install the Intel RST drivers, then add the registry hack to disable the LPM and it now works as it should.

This is not a permanent fix, but it goes to show that it's Crucials' problem and they need to pull their finger out and get it sorted so we can re-enable LPM and get normal performance.

And as and update from last night, I've been using the machine for a few hours this morning and all is well with no stuttering at all.

Renton · 22 Mar 2011 at 08:52

I may have found a solution to this (for me at least)

Have a look at the original post of this thread, primarily at the intel driver update part of it. I was updating my intel drivers but it would appear that most were not actually updating for some reason (they were still showing as 2006)

I followed the directions posted here for updating intel drivers and it has improved thing greatly
http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=68060

am I ok posting links to other Forums?

Ren

Beggs74 · 24 Mar 2011 at 04:32

hominid said:
I have just found a possible solution to this here: http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-S...eze-ups-in-Windows-7-solved-for-me/td-p/38766

I changed the settings outlined by making the registry file and adding it, so far it all seems good and I've yet to notice any pauses since changing it - although it's late and I'm way too tired.

This worked for me.

Lunatic Dreyfus · 24 Mar 2011 at 05:27

Mr Krugga said:
Does everyone with C300 and 0006 firmware have this issue?

Mine came with this firmware already on, haven't noticed anything as you described yet.

Can't say I've seen anything like it. Neither of my c300's (64gb) which have both been used as game drives have shown anything like this. They run mainly Steam based games and they've always scooted along just fine. Other non steam games work well too like Mass Effect and Mount and Blade.

Sorry to throw a spanner in the trouble shooting, but that's the way with these things.

PaladinBL · 1 Apr 2011 at 16:50

Great news. There will be a new firmware for C300 that addresses and corrects the version 0006 issue. Just anounced on Crucial forum. New firmware will be available in late April 2011.

Neil79 · 1 Apr 2011 at 17:50

Strange

Could this be whats happening to me in BFBC2 ? , i also have a SSD but a patriot 60GB

Mr Krugga · 1 Apr 2011 at 19:21

Neil79 said:
Strange

Could this be whats happening to me in BFBC2 ? , i also have a SSD but a patriot 60GB

Is your Patriot SSD based on Marvel C300 controller? If not, it doesn't have anything to do with your SSD.

PaladinBL said:
Great news. There will be a new firmware for C300 that addresses and corrects the version 0006 issue. Just anounced on Crucial forum. New firmware will be available in late April 2011.

I hope it's not an April Fools' kind of news...

On topic, my C300 would not work at all without Intel Rapid Storage Technology installed. I've got MSI P55-GD65 board and use Intel P55 Sata II controllers. On default drivers it would do long freezes every few seconds to every few minutes. By long I mean anything from a few seconds to a few minutes - basically unusable. Was slightly better before I started messing about with chipset drivers but finally ended up with the latest RST and everything works just fine (despite low 4k results in AS SSD and Crystal Mark).

ATTO gives me brilliant results and I'm more than happy with the drive.

I wish Crucial would release 0007 firmware for it though.

PaladinBL · 1 Apr 2011 at 20:04

Mr Krugga said:
I hope it's not an April Fools' kind of news...

It is confirmed that it's not a joke.

Mr Krugga said:
but finally ended up with the latest RST and everything works just fine

Someone on AnandTech forum solve problems by installing default Windows AHCI driver instead off Intel RST. It seems that everyone have different experience.

izit · 4 Apr 2011 at 13:20

Got mine today and realized after 15 mins it was faulty. While playing heroes of newerth it studders for about 5 secs every 10 mins or so.. 64gb/0006 version

FARGO · 4 Apr 2011 at 13:31

Most likely unrelated, but is there a possiblitity it could be the Steam Cloud constantly trying to sync?

PaladinBL · 4 Apr 2011 at 15:12

izit said:
Got mine today and realized after 15 mins it was faulty. While playing heroes of newerth it studders for about 5 secs every 10 mins or so.. 64gb/0006 version

It looks as the problem they are planing to fix in next firmware that will be released in late April.

izit · 4 Apr 2011 at 20:08

We'll see but I have a feeling it will only partially fix it. It looks like "Solution: C300 Disk Freeze-ups in Windows 7 solved for me" seems to have done the trick.

How long has this fault been going on for? Can't believe I haven't heard of it before.

PaladinBL · 4 Apr 2011 at 20:39

Since release of 0006 firmware. But not everyone have that problem.

Renton · 14 Apr 2011 at 23:59

i still have my C300 in the hope that the new firmware will sort the problem out, but im running on my spinpoint until then, i have the crucial forum post on my favorites and will post when the new firmware is released (im sure days behind most of u guys) and let you know if it helped with my issues

cheers

reygjabla · 15 Apr 2011 at 00:14

I have both the 64 and the 128GB C300 and both have been updated to firmware 006. I have'nt experienced any stuttering maybe because I always secure erase the drive after every firmware update to make sure none of the old data would cause any issue with the OS. I also used the latest Iastor driver from intel.