100% disk "active time"

[Cell]

Twice today was playing Subnautica and suddenly started getting about 1 frame a minute. At first thought game was locking up again. Since I had the game installed on another partition it was the only thing affected, accept a game update that was installed on the same partition. open task manager, went to performance tab and active time was pinned at a near constant 100% but with little actual transfer rate.

I will restgart the PC and hope this goes away.

[Cell]

I forgot to mention killing Subnautica did drop active time back to nothing.

[Cell]

No joy. Hop in a seamoth and try and go fullspeed and BOOM, done.

[Obraxis]

Are you on a mechanical Hard Drive, or SSD?

[Cell]

OS is SSD, game is on a mechanical.

[Ceejay]

How much memory fo you have? maybe your virtual memory is being hammered.

[Cell]

16 Gigs. and the page is on the SSD.

[TheTool]

It is normal until game is optimized.

[Obraxis]

Having Windows on an SSD only improves loading the game so much. We plan on addressing that, but moving the game to a SSD will help as loading the world takes a lot of HDD access right now.

[Cell]

backing up saved game and moving it to a different mechanical drive in the computer. Whilst backing up ran into this error with WinRar: G:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Subnautica\SNAppData\SavedGamesDelta.rar: Cannot open G:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Subnautica\SNAppData\SavedGames\slot0000\CellsCache\baked-batch-cells-10-18-12.bin
! Data error (cyclic redundancy check).

[Hans Blitz]

Windows 10 Telemetry, Nvidia uses it aswell, wait till it finishs, Windows could be doing an update in the background, or a scheduled task like getfile sorting and arranging your HD files, system maintainance, kinda does a defrag of your HD sometimes goes for 10 or 20 mins makes the HD go wild %99 CPU usage making everything else barely useable.
You can't turn these functions off in new OS without damaging your system in the long run as they are needed proccesses.
You can set your tasks day of maintainance but you can't turn them off.

[Cell]

Used steam to validate my install and no problem. Decided to try and rename the failed CRC file and try again. Trouble has subsided, for now. Will keep testing.

[GlassDeviant]

Originally posted by Cell:

16 Gigs. and the page is on the SSD.

Never put a page file on an SSD. It should only be on a mechanical drive, preferably in its own partition, and optimally on a separate drive from anything else, like if you have a nice, small 7200rpm SATA drive you can stick it on.

Originally posted by Blackrain:

Windows 10 Telemetry, Nvidia uses it aswell, wait till it finishs, Windows could be doing an update in the background, or a scheduled task like getfile sorting and arranging your HD files, system maintainance, kinda does a defrag of your HD sometimes goes for 10 or 20 mins makes the HD go wild %99 CPU usage making everything else barely useable.
You can't turn these functions off in new OS without damaging your system in the long run as they are needed proccesses.
You can set your tasks day of maintainance but you can't turn them off.

If it was the Windows telemetry, it wouldn't have subsided when he closed the game. Besides, most of that stuff only runs in idle time, not while your system is under heavy use.

P.S.: You can turn them off, and you won't damage your system, but if you don't know what you're doing you probably shouldn't mess with them.

[Ceejay]

Originally posted by Zombielord Ativan:

Never put a page file on an SSD. It should only be on a mechanical drive, preferably in its own partition, and optimally on a separate drive from anything else, like if you have a nice, small 7200rpm SATA drive you can stick it on.

With very very early ssd's it could be an issue, its not really an issue with a modern ssd well not more than having it on a mechnical drive anyway. Essentially in Googles experiance, ssd's fail at a lower rate than a mechanical drive and the age of the drive was more important for reliability not usage.

https://www.tenforums.com/windows-10-news/42041-ssd-reliability-real-world-googles-experience.html

[Cell]

Page moved to a third mechanical not in use for anything else on the system. Thanks!