100% Disk Usage when playing games specifically from steam

[SKull]

I've been having this issue for three weeks now and have yet to find a solution.
When playing games such as Mordhau and Total War Warhammer 2 my disk usage reaches 100% when loading certain elements of the game.
In Mordhau, textures take a longer time to load than they previously did and maps take longer to load as well.
In TWW2, the campaigns and battles load slowly, the lords and new campaigns screens lag when first loading, and the game will freeze for a second when clicking on armies and settlements.
I have tried so many solutions and have yet to find one since I do not know what would even cause my hard drive to suddenly load slower and reach 100% when playing games.
Check disk states no action is needed and I have used defrag on the hard drive. I have uninstalled Chrome, I have updated all of my drivers, reinstalled steam, verified game file integrity, updated windows 10, scanned for viruses, changed paging file sizes/disabled paging, and followed some convoluted steps to fix the problem. None of these solutions has made a noticeable difference, and changing them back does not fix it either.
Overwatch is on my HDD and runs perfectly fine, so I have no idea what is going on with my steam games.
The issue has not gotten worse, but I would like to fix it as soon as possible. Before anyone says use an SSD, the games loaded just fine 2 months prior and I couldn't afford a bigger one anyways.
Send help, I'm losing my mind looking through forums and posts that don't describe the same issue I'm having.
Here are specs:
CPU: Intel Core 17-9700F 3.0Ghz
GPU: NVidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB
16GB DDR4 RAM
HDD: 1TB 7200RPM
SSD: 240 GB (Where games are not stored)

[crunchyfrog]

There is only one scenario I can think of, and it's a long shot, but it's one that happened to me when I bought my laptop a few months ago.

There is an issue, which is predominantly on laptops, but can affect desktops too, where some service or another whacks your disk usage to 100% for no good reason, rendering everything else a slideshow and unusable.

There were several suggestions I went through to no avail, but what fixed it entirely for me was changing a registry entry setting.

So have a read of this, and see if it helps for you. As I say, it's a long shot.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3083595/task-manager-might-show-100-disk-utilization-on-windows-10-devices-wit

[SKull]

Unfortunately that did not work. Although that was still an issue, it has been like that since I first got my computer, and I've only recently had issues with my disk.
Thanks though

[Chester :3]

:(

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Saltcerer Supreme:

Unfortunately that did not work. Although that was still an issue, it has been like that since I first got my computer, and I've only recently had issues with my disk.
Thanks though

Ah well, from what I've heard it CAN return. Not seen evidence of that in my case, but I thought it worth mentioning.

[SKull]

For the time being I fixed it, I guess?
I just kinda nuked my common folder of all the things that shouldn't be in it.
There was a videos folder from R6 that I deleted from it and I also deleted the steam support folder. Not sure which did it

[Chester :3]

I have the same problem myself

[Elucidator]

You may want to report it as a bug. It seems like a bug if it is related to the client.
You can check what programs use your disk and its activity in task manager.

[SKull]

Guess I figured out the issue.
I had DeadByDaylight and Dead By Daylight in my steamapps/common folder. Got rid of the duplicate folder and things seem to be running smoothly.
Helped someone else out. They had two Double Action folders, one of which was practically empty. They deleted it and the problem went away.

[crunchyfrog]

Excellent news. Not just because you solved it, but kudos for reporting back as that will hopefully help other sin future.

[SKull]

Another update
The Steam Application and drivers were stored on the C drive, when all of the games are stored on the D drive.

[EZL Kara]

Hey, this also happened to me the other day when I tried to play Total War: Warhammer III! The only fix that worked for me was updating all my drivers. For example, I updated my NVIDIA Studio driver and Game Ready driver through GeForce Experience. After that, I restarted my laptop (not sure if the restart is necessary, but that’s what I did, haha). Once I did this, my disk usage returned to normal. My laptop is a bit old, so I’m not sure if this will work on a PC, but I hope it helps anyone experiencing the same issue! :)

[Katie]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.