Some of my steam games are suddenly laggy and unplayable

[robmsnyder]

So I've put about 14 hours of playtime into Death Stranding and at first it worked pretty well on low settings, but lately I've run into problems with it. Firstly it takes like twenty minutes to load and when it does there's so much lag that the game becomes unplayable. Funnily enough, I only seem to be having this problem with steam games saved on my external hard drive, games saved to my laptop don't have any issues at all. I tried getting a new hard drive but that didn't seem to do anything so I guess there's no correlation there. Any idea what the problem might be?

I'll list my system specs here if that helps:

Computer Information:
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Model: TUF Gaming FX505DD_FX505DD
Form Factor: Laptop
No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD
CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 5 3550H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
CPU Family: 0x17
CPU Model: 0x18
CPU Stepping: 0x1
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 2096 Mhz
8 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Supported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported

Operating System Version:
Windows 10 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0

Video Card:
Driver: AMD Radeon(TM) Vega 8 Graphics
DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll
Driver Version: 27.20.1032.2
DirectX Driver Version: 27.21.14.6677
Driver Date: 8 11 2020
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1c91
Revision: 0xa1
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 13.54" x 7.64" (15.51" diag)
34.4cm x 19.4cm (39.4cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 8x
Primary VRAM: 128 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers (Realtek(R) Audio)

Memory:
RAM: 8001 Mb

VR Hardware:
VR Headset: None detected

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: Undetermined
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 1196905 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 752575 Mb
OS Install Date: Dec 31 1969
Game Controller: None detected
MAC Address hash: c67069d5f43e3d03db4d41ebc81594a2b3d14dca

Storage:
Disk serial number hash: d65ceb28
Number of SSDs: 1
SSD sizes: 256G
Number of HDDs: 1
HDD sizes: 1000G

[Iceira]

test witha single player game to ruleout network issue and its a pc issue you have.
there is a summer sale atm. many million of steam user DL on all servers , and ISP network is effect , and so will game data to multi player games depend on publick server or privat server can be even worse.

i dont say you are wrong , but your joub to ruleout network or not , or my pc only
and single player games just help confirm it.