Hard Drive being accessed during gameplay. Help.

[Balex99]

OK, here is the deal. I'm playing MCM2 and a couple of minutes into it, the game play gets a little jerky and at that same time the HD is being accessed. Now I know the HD access is what is slowing down the game but I don't why it's spinning up. It only does it for approx. 10 secs then stops. Then a few minutes later it does it again. This is on a fresh install of the game and a fresh install of ME. All info is listed in Brian's box with one addition. I have finally joined the ranks and put another 30 gig on and a High point raid controller(raid 0). Every other game is working fine. I have also put a line in my registry based on another members recommendation for another reason and that line is "ConservativeSwapfileUsage = 1".

I am also wondering if any of those Memory manager utilities do any good? I am about to go a do some reading on how all that swap file stuff works.

 

[paulee]

go to your task manager and see if you have a program called Findfast running.

If you do, that's your problem. It's an MS Office "Feature" that routinely scans your HD to "Optimize" file access.
Look on the internet for a solution, I remember disabling it was a bit tricky.