SSD slow load times

Rhyswh

Rhyswh

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Hi, I've just started playing games on my PC (more of a console gamer). I've had Bad company 2 for a while but never played it so decided to play it. I haven't got a graphics card yet so using the intel HD4000.

I thought the game was installed on my storage drive so I didn't think anything of it but yesterday I realised that it's installed on the SSD so the load times are really slow!!! Almost a minute to load into a game!

Any suggestions as to why?
 
Rhyswh said:
I haven't. How do I make sure TRIM is working?

It's a about a year old and has 30gb free out of 120gb.
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To enable or disable TRIM Command, you will need to open an Elevated Command Prompt window
And Type the following Commends ok

fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify
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It will give you one of two results, either a
0
or a
1

A zero indicates that TRIM is enabled correctly, a 1 means that it is not. If you have a TRIM-compatible SSD, but find that Windows 7 hasn't enabled the command, you can easily do so by running this command:

fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0
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Note that TRIM is only supported in Windows 7, so if you have an SSD but are running an older version of Windows, it's probably a good idea to upgrade. Hit the link for other SSD optimization tips, and share your own with us in the comments.


In Windows 8 I think it Automatically Detects it, Just make sure Optimise Disks is Enabled In Services * when you go to Degrag I think it'll say TRIM or something.. I can't remember sorry.

But to Enable & disable Just make sure you have Elevated Command Prompt window Open & type your commands there.

You need TRIM working to be honest to Help Keep Performance, You see when you delete stuff on an SSD If you don't have TRIM enabled
then it's not going to be deleted right & the blocks stay full. So over time this degrades your speed Big Time Man. It's the SSD Version of a Clean Delete Defrag.

Good Luck Man :)
 
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Rhyswh said:
Thanks. Just done it and it's enabled.

How do I clean up my SSD safely?
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Just do a Disk clean Up & Then where you would normally go to defrag a HDD I think you go there & it'll say TRIM or something & just click it as if your doing a Defrag. But make sure it don't say defrag lol. defragging A SSD is Just going to wear the poor sod down.. lol

However Hyperfast which is the SSD optimizer add-on for Diskeeper 2009, is said to do a good job, If you can get hold of Diskeeper it'll find your SSD & take care of it for you. But some people rather just use windows.


Also If your Win7 machine is set to AHCI in the BIOS, it will trim itself

There'll be some tool out there some place, I know for the Vertex there is OCZ SSD Toolbox
I Just don't know if it's cool for all SSD's as I'm just installing mine myself, Sorry

It's up to you Pal :)
 
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CodeMeRight said:
Just do a Disk clean Up & Then where you would normally go to defrag a HDD I think you go there & it'll say TRIM or something & just click it as if your doing a Defrag. But make sure it don't say defrag lol. defragging A SSD is Just going to wear the poor sod down.. lol
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I don't think there's any "TRIM" option instead of Defrag. As you stated, if TRIM is enabled, it looks after itself.

Samsung Magician (for Samsung SSDs) has an "optimise" function which can be used to "force" TRIM if you haven't got it enabled. I'm not aware of any Windows facility that does the same.
 
Dervious said:
I don't think there's any "TRIM" option instead of Defrag. As you stated, if TRIM is enabled, it looks after itself.

Samsung Magician (for Samsung SSDs) has an "optimise" function which can be used to "force" TRIM if you haven't got it enabled. I'm not aware of any Windows facility that does the same.
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Yes I was trying to remember so Thanks for clearing that up mate :)

I Just did a little MrG Search & found this

Hello, In Windows 7 - we turned off defrag for SSDs as you mention in your entry; but in Windows 8, we have changed the defrag tool to do a general optimization tool that handles different kinds of storage, and in the case of SSD's it will send 'trim' hints for the entire volume;

SSDs are storage devices made of flash memory; flash memory unlike hard disks are block erasable devices - they can be written to at a byte level but need to erased at a block level; Trim is a storage level hint that was

introduced in the Windows 7 days to indicate that Windows is not using certain regions of the storage device; NTFS will send these trim hints when files are deleted or moved from those regions; SSDs consume these hints to perform a cleanup in the background called as 'reclaim' that helps them get ready for next writes. The SSD may choose to perform the optimization immediately, store the information for later optimization or throw away the hint completely and not use it for optimization since it does not have time to perform this optimization immediately.

In Windows 8, when the Storage Optimizer (the new defrag tool) detects that the volume is mounted on an SSD - it sends a complete set of trim hints for the entire volume again - this is done at idle time and helps to allow for SSDs that were unable to cleanup earlier - a chance to react to these hints and cleanup and optimizer for the best performance. We do not do a traditional defrag (moving files to optimizer there location for space and performance) on SSDs.
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SO I think this is where your Better going Into Services & making sure the " OPTIMISE DISK " Service Is enabled :)

Anyhow this should clear a few SSD Questions up lol, I Hope this Helps you out mate & Let us know how you get on with the SSD Performance OK..

Good Luck Man :)
 
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Ok thanks.

So TRIM is enabled but my load times are still slow! I ran a SSD test and got 412mb/s read times which I believe is good. Why does it take so long! What other things can impact load times?
 
Probably. There should be a way of backup up your save game files, but I can't give specific details, as I don't own the game.

Maybe someone who owns the game can guide you.
 
Rhyswh said:
How would reinstalling it help though?
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It might fix the problem !

It seems to be the next logical thing to do. You've stated that Windows boots up nice and quickly, and there are no other issues (that you`ve mentioned).

If you don't try it, you won't know if it will fix the problem.
 
Dervious said:
It might fix the problem !

It seems to be the next logical thing to do. You've stated that Windows boots up nice and quickly, and there are no other issues (that you`ve mentioned).

If you don't try it, you won't know if it will fix the problem.
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Fair one!!
 
Rhyswh said:
If I do that will I loose all my unlocks and campaign mode?
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If I remember rightly I Think what your Looking for is C:\Users\yourname\Documents\BFBC2. & the setting is GameSettings.bin. Also You could Just back Up & Safe the All BFBC2 folder if you want to backup your saves and your in game settings. :)
If your using XP or Vista, the file location may be a little different.

That's what I'd do.. Good Luck Pal :)
 
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Not sure if you copied and pasted that from somewhere but I haven't got a new SSD!!! And my boot time isn't slow so that last bit is irrelevant.
 
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