Game 100% disk usage on HDD despite being installed on SSD (SOLVED)

[Heavy & Ze Medic]

I'm not sure why this is a sudden issue because it was working perfectly fine before but I just started playing again today and it started stuttering horribly immediately upon starting up story mode. It hadn't done this before, and when I checked task manager to see what was going on, I noticed it was using my HDD to process things and not the SSD, which is what its installed on. I honestly only got an SSD so I could run RDR2 and now ironically it isn't using it. I'm very confused and don't want to start trying to play on it on the HDD because that's what broke it last time. Does anyone know whats going on?

Specs:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super

Intel Core i5-10400F CPU @ 2.90GHZ

7.78 GB RAM

Thanks.

SOLVED:

My HDD was being used for page filing and isn't capable of providing it fast enough, resulting in it stuttering. I set the page filing to my SSD and it fixed the problem. Thanks everyone.

[MA€STRO™]

Who many free space you have in OS disc?

Originally posted by Heavy & Ze Medic:

I'm not sure why this is a sudden issue because it was working perfectly fine before but I just started playing again today and it started stuttering horribly immediately upon starting up story mode. It hadn't done this before, and when I checked task manager to see what was going on, I noticed it was using my HDD to process things and not the SSD, which is what its installed on. I honestly only got an SSD so I could run RDR2 and now ironically it isn't using it. I'm very confused and don't want to start trying to play on it on the HDD because that's what broke it last time. Does anyone know whats going on?

Thanks.

[Heavy & Ze Medic]

Originally posted by MA€STRO™:

Who many free space you have in OS disc?

Originally posted by Heavy & Ze Medic:

I'm not sure why this is a sudden issue because it was working perfectly fine before but I just started playing again today and it started stuttering horribly immediately upon starting up story mode. It hadn't done this before, and when I checked task manager to see what was going on, I noticed it was using my HDD to process things and not the SSD, which is what its installed on. I honestly only got an SSD so I could run RDR2 and now ironically it isn't using it. I'm very confused and don't want to start trying to play on it on the HDD because that's what broke it last time. Does anyone know whats going on?

Thanks.

57.1 GBs

[MA€STRO™]

So you have the game and the win in the same SSD? You have win 10 or 11?

[Heavy & Ze Medic]

Originally posted by MA€STRO™:

So you have the game and the win in the same SSD? You have win 10 or 11?

What do you mean?

I'm pretty sure Windows is installed on the HDD. The game is installed on the SSD. I'm using Windows 10, but I don't see how that'd be the problem if it was working fine before.

[Glorbo Fruttodrillo]

System specs ?

[Heavy & Ze Medic]

Originally posted by Babaneto:

System specs ?

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super

Intel Core i5-10400F CPU @ 2.90GHZ

7.78 GB RAM

Again, I dunno how it'd be relevant to something that just randomly deciding to start happening.

[Heavy & Ze Medic]

And before you ask, no, I haven't made any changes to my specs since the last time I played. I installed my SSD before even starting to play RDR2.

[MA€STRO™]

Originally posted by Heavy & Ze Medic:

And before you ask, no, I haven't made any changes to my specs since the last time I played. I installed my SSD before even starting to play RDR2.

There was no changes ingame also

[MonkeyGamesVR]

Originally posted by Heavy & Ze Medic:

Originally posted by MA€STRO™:

So you have the game and the win in the same SSD? You have win 10 or 11?

What do you mean?

I'm pretty sure Windows is installed on the HDD. The game is installed on the SSD. I'm using Windows 10, but I don't see how that'd be the problem if it was working fine before.

Yes this the best way to install games and other apps on seprate disk hdd or ssd. But best ofcourse using a fast mover like m.2ssd ofc. The 1tb are most best.

[Starbarian]

Call you ISP to change your IP address, Do a full virus scan on your Computer.
You could be infected with Chia crypto mining Malware.

[Heavy & Ze Medic]

Originally posted by Rockaholic:

Call you ISP to change your IP address, Do a full virus scan on your Computer.
You could be infected with Chia crypto mining Malware.

I doubt that. I've only had disk usage issues when running RDR2, even before my hard drive broke.

[Heavy & Ze Medic]

Originally posted by MonkeyGamesVR:

Originally posted by Heavy & Ze Medic:

What do you mean?

I'm pretty sure Windows is installed on the HDD. The game is installed on the SSD. I'm using Windows 10, but I don't see how that'd be the problem if it was working fine before.

Yes this the best way to install games and other apps on seprate disk hdd or ssd. But best ofcourse using a fast mover like m.2ssd ofc. The 1tb are most best.

??? How is this relevant

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The HDD is being pegged because well, its a HDD, they are all slow.
You having the OS on a HDD is really dumb. Use two SSDs. Use the HDD as a secondary file storage drive. One major reason why some games will max out your HDD in the way you have it setup it because of its need to use the PageFile the entire time a game like RDR2 runs. Why you might ask? Cause you have 8GB of RAM... OMG like WHY?

[Heavy & Ze Medic]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

The HDD is being pegged because well, its a HDD, they are all slow.
You having the OS on a HDD is really dumb. Use two SSDs. Use the HDD as a secondary file storage drive. One major reason why some games will max out your HDD in the way you have it setup it because of its need to use the PageFile the entire time a game like RDR2 runs. Why you might ask? Cause you have 8GB of RAM... OMG like WHY?

I don't see why it'd be that big of a deal. SSDs are expensive, and I'm not gonna spend hundreds of dollars to get an SSD with a terabyte or more of space. Like I said, this didn't happen before.

And no need to start saying my decisions are dumb. Unnecessary. I asked for help, not to be ridiculed, thanks.

[Heavy & Ze Medic]

RDR2 is on an SSD, not the HDD. I've already said this. What would be the point of putting the game on an SSD like everyone says if it just uses your HDD to process the game anyway? Which is exactly why they say to get an SSD, so it can process fast enough and not stutter. That doesn't make sense.