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Can a harddrive make games run slow?.

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hey yeah i have an Seagate 80GB 7,500rpm IDE harddrive.Now the problem is every time i go into my documents it take ages to load all the data i have on it. and especialy on battlefield 2 it will run fine but every 2 secs the frame rate will go from 60fps to like 10fps then back up and down does this mean the harddrive is dieing cause it is making wierd noises.
 
Most likely it's some application running in the background that is accessing the hard drive. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it's spyware. You would do well to run a spyware and virus scan. After doing that, check to see if you still experience this problem.

And if you have any doubt about the functionality of your hard drive, then run this useful application:

http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/B7a.html
 
sounds like maybe someone has set up a dcc bot or sumthing on your machine...run some sort of antivirus
 
I have done antivirus scans (windows antispyware and Adware SE) still BF2 and data take agaes to load.
 
Okay, maybe your drive is in PIO mode.

Go to Control Panel > System > Device Manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers. Then pick the IDE channel the drive is on. Go to Properties. Now figure out whether your drive is set as master (Device 0) or slave (Device 1). See if it says Ultra DMA _ or PIO under the entry Current Transfer Mode.
 
start > run > permon.msc > log the pagefile and then load the game

you didnt mention what amount of RAM you have, or what apps and processes have allocation during a session

another possibility is concurrent access on the same channel
IDE is sequential

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=741512 > Physical Config


checking your event log is also a good idea (on a regular basis) Start > Run > eventvwr.msc
 
I have the same problem for the first five to ten minutes of play, not including the ridiculous loads. My drive has tested out fine, I've defragged, cleaned registry entries, done a fresh install, turned down my settings, and I am pissed off that BF2 still doesn't play nice.
 
I've had a problem similar to yours before. I stopped using my audigy 2 (turned off hardware sound) and the problem stopped. Thinking back it was probably a irq error.
 
strossos said:
I've had a problem similar to yours before. I stopped using my audigy 2 (turned off hardware sound) and the problem stopped. Thinking back it was probably a irq error.
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another possibility ;)

an indepth review of PIRQ routing

http://www.sudhian.com/showfaqs.cfm?fid=7&fcid=26

a simple changup of which cards are in which slots might impact the load time
but unlike workstations and servers, PIRQ routing tables dont get regularly published for desktop mobos and trial and error maybe your only recourse

it could also be just a bad driver somewhere thats holding up the line
 
well the other day i was updating the nforce 4 chipset drivers to the latest ones off nvidia's site when i restarted after i had the blue screen of death and some of my programs got uninstalled or they wouldnt work propaly but that only happen when i installed the nforce 4's built in firewall not only that the internet wouldnt work with it installed can it just be the harddrive about to crash it has been drop a few times and when i was building this pc the harddrive was making sounds like an jet engine.
 
In your OP you stated it was making weird noises, and now it sounds like a jet engine.....back your data and get a new HDD.
 
yeah if it's making a ton of noise that is NOT good, especially if it didnt before


get a new hard drive and good luck with the pricematch, either way it's a good price even without a pricematch
 
Guess what ppl i am now on my dad's pc i think u guys know what happen well thanks anyway for the help i will keep this in mind from now on once again thanks.
 
One more possibility nobody else mentioned - Your computer could be running a virus scan in the background. I know with Symantec Antivirus pre 10.0.1.1000, it's a major system hog. (Same with Norton, seeing as to how it's the same thing)
 
A final thought with the framerate issue would be vsync. Dropping from 60 to low numbers is a hallmark of having vsync on
 
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