07-09-2019 01:48 PM
07-16-2019 02:18 AM
Daphic said:
- SSD storage is actually really quite low
- To be 100% honest I actually never downloaded my motherboard drivers mostly because everyone was telling me it wasn’t important. Is it a priority?
07-17-2019 12:06 PM
sraura said:
Daphic said:
- SSD storage is actually really quite low
- To be 100% honest I actually never downloaded my motherboard drivers mostly because everyone was telling me it wasn’t important. Is it a priority?
The SSD storage being low could play part because if you are running low on memory and windows controls the virtual memory storage locations, it may use that SSD as default and when that runs out of space, it may use your hard disk for VM. That will definitely show in system performance. You can check the details by:
- writing "advanced system settings" to windows 10 search box and hitting enter
- in this new "system properties"-window, go to "advanced tab" and under "performance"-section click "settings"
- in this new "performance options"-window go to "advanced tab".
- on bottom you can see "virtual memory"-section and total paging file size for all drives. There is also "change"-button, which takes you to details. VM should be on SSD disk*. You can take control of these settings**.
*) if you have more than one SSD disk, put VM to the one which is not the windows system disk.**) if you do - as a general rule - the maximum size of the paging file should be x1.5
the amount of RAM installed. For example for 16GB of RAM,
the maximum size of the swap should be 1024 x 16 x 1.5 = 24576MB. For minimum usually the amount what windows suggests as "recommended" should be good enough.What comes to the driver question I would say that as general rule;
- it is good to install those manufacturers drivers right after windows installation.
- keep bios updated to latest version at least 6-12 months after the release of the motherboard
- check for further updates to bios/drivers if you're experiencing issues with your system.
- to desktop computers display driver should be downloaded from gpu manufacturers support site
That being said - for older motherboards windows usually tends to offer rather well working drivers. For laptops however I would recommend using only the manufactures drivers if available.
07-17-2019 12:19 PM
07-17-2019 01:02 PM
sraura said:
If windows controls the VM size, that default value is usually rather low and it is normal. If you want to let windows manage that in future too, just make sure you have enough room on your primary VM disk... Most likely the system drive C. Windows will expand that file when needed. If that primary drive runs out of space, windows will start using other drives too.Anyways any progress with the original issue itself? Still experiencing same amount of frame drops/freezes ?
07-17-2019 01:18 PM
07-22-2019 07:26 PM
sraura said:
Ok nice to hear that there has been some improvement.Anyways my bag of tricks is pretty much empty now, but as last thing you could run the log gatherer and see if those files contain some obvious errors/warnings after your game session.