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It's often completely impossible to game on Vista

Scouzer

Scouzer

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So I understand the thrashing is necessary. Vista is full of crap I don't care about like Windows Defender, Prefetch, System Restore, etc. But for the life of me I'm so FREAKING FRUSTRATED about how my hard drive is thrashing ALL THE FREAKING TIME.

I can't game because I have to make sure Vista is not thrashing the hard drive prior to me opening the game. If I do open the game, Vista will NOT STOP thrashing the hard disk, making the game totally unplayable. I have 2gb of RAM and that's more than enough to play CS:S....

Today svchost.exe was thrashing the hard drive for a full 25 minutes. I rebooted to get it to stop. The reboot changed nothing. I have disabled System Restore...I guess I'll have to disable prefetch and Windows Defender too.

I am not impressed. The Hard Drive thrashes at random on no followable pattern, so I can be playing CS:S just fine with 50fps, then I drop to 15fps for 20 minutes straight, then back to 50fps when Vista is done ruining my gaming experience.
 
I havent had a problem with this at all in Vista. Even when I first installed it didn't thrash the HD for indexing while I was gaming.
 
Originally posted by: Scouzer
So I understand the thrashing is necessary. Vista is full of crap I don't care about like Windows Defender, Prefetch, System Restore, etc. But for the life of me I'm so FREAKING FRUSTRATED about how my hard drive is thrashing ALL THE FREAKING TIME.

I can't game because I have to make sure Vista is not thrashing the hard drive prior to me opening the game. If I do open the game, Vista will NOT STOP thrashing the hard disk, making the game totally unplayable. I have 2gb of RAM and that's more than enough to play CS:S....

Today svchost.exe was thrashing the hard drive for a full 25 minutes. I rebooted to get it to stop. The reboot changed nothing. I have disabled System Restore...I guess I'll have to disable prefetch and Windows Defender too.

I am not impressed. The Hard Drive thrashes at random on no followable pattern, so I can be playing CS:S just fine with 50fps, then I drop to 15fps for 20 minutes straight, then back to 50fps when Vista is done ruining my gaming experience.
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I game a lot on Vista x64 this is what I do,I set Windows Defender real time scan to off and have it scan once everyday,System Restore I have disabled,right now my HD is at idle,its not hard to configure Vista to your gaming needs.Btw try a ReadyBoost flash drive,that might help with disk caching.


 
I wish people would stop coming here and saying "Vista is doing this" or "Vista is doing that" and expecting people to help. We don't have some magic crystal that lets US look at YOUR computer.

Open up resource monitor and LOOK to see what is using your disk. If you have questions after that, come post them.


I suppose you could also just willy-nilly flip stuff off and on until you get rid of the hard drive activity. Hope nothing important like backups get disabled. :roll:

 
Originally posted by: Scouzer
I did... and I told you...its svchost.

Maybe read the post?
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"svchost" is a vague executable used to do many things. Use a process viewer to see what is being executed by svchost, and/or look at exactly what files it is reading/writing.
 
Originally posted by: Scouzer
I did... and I told you...its svchost.

Maybe read the post?
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I did. Your post provides zero useful information.

There are half a dozen svchosts running on your system. Which one is it? If you're unsure the file it's touching will give a hint.
 
My Vista install did seem to thrash the hard drive pretty good the first couple of weeks. Since then, it is running really smooth.
 
Originally posted by: Scouzer
I did... and I told you...its svchost.
Maybe read the post?
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My engine is making a weird sound. Your post provides no real information. YES IT DOES I SAID IT WAS FROM THE ENGINE.

Hint: Your post is about that usefull to anyone who might want to help you.

Svchost houses services, at a minimum you need to determine which service it causing this (look at the services tab in taskman). What your seeing is NOT normal (sans your ranting on prefetch and other features which actually SPEED up your experience).

Bill
 
I am in agreement with the others.... its not a useful post 🙂 I have 2GB RAM and playing MTW2 and, LOTRO, STALKER and more with zero thrashing. There must be another process or application that is causing it. AV, and Defender would be the normal suspects... but you can download the most useful tool in the universe called process monitor and that should finger the problem for you http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processmonitor.mspx
 
Originally posted by: SimMike2
My Vista install did seem to thrash the hard drive pretty good the first couple of weeks. Since then, it is running really smooth.
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Thats a reqult of indexing and prefetch. One of the best features of Vista IMHO.
 
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