Games on new SSD are "lagging" / causing freezes

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Hey there,

I bought a new SSD (Samsung 860 QVO - 1 TB) and installed some games on it.
It came to my attention that the games Quake Champions and Dirt Rally 2.0. have lags
while I'm playing. Not the kind of lag you have when you internet connection is bad but, in the case of Quake Champions, a really long (1-2 seconds) freeze. It then ran fine for I don't know how long.
In case of Dirt Rally 2.0. I had like 2-3 little freezes during one race (approx. 8 minutes long).

EDIT: My OS is not on that SSD. My Windows is on another drive (also SSD).

I checked my SSD for errors - none found.

Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?

Appreciate the answers in advance.

[XistenZ]

What RAM do you have? The SSD should have the games loading faster, but when you're playing it should run from the RAM not the SSD.

Of course there's always the possibility they run from the SSD anyway, and/or something's wrong with it. Try moving the games to another drive and see if the lag persists.

[[☥] - CJ -]

What SATA port do you have it connected to on the motherboard?
Use Crystal Disk Mark to bench the drive to make sure you are getting the appropriate Read/Write speeds for that SSD, if its lower than what the drive is capable of then that could explain your results.

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It's connected to the SATA 3 Port and the readings are ok - I used the HDTuner as well as the Samsung magician.

However, according to HD Tuner, there is something wrong my other other SSD I have my OS installed on. What I am doing now is backing everything up and putting it on the new SSD - including a fresh installation of Windows etc.
I will post an update after I'm done with all that stuff

[[☥] - CJ -]

SATA III as in 6GB/s
or as in 3GB/s?

I would still suggest benchmarking the drive to see what speeds you get from it

[Julien, cut it out.]

To exclude a problem with your new ssd, I'd suggest to move the above mentioned games on your OS ssd or another drive and test these games, like XistenZ suggested.

Otherwise log your hardware activity during gameplay with HWInfo and analyze them with a generic log viewer afterwards. You also have the possibility to display hardware activity ingame with HWInfo + Rivatuner (On Screen Display).

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So, I used different programs to analyze my hardware and it seemed like there was a problem with my internal HDD (not one of the SSDs). I now disconnected the HDD. I cleaned up all SSDs and installed Windows on my new one. I made a mistake and deleted copies of my games so I have to download them again and try them. If there was a problem with my new SSD, shouldn't Windows now freeze as well? Because so far, I had no problem with my new installation.

One diagnostic tool told me that my old SSD had some problem with a "threshold" - every other program couldn't detect anything. I used the Samsung Magician Software, HWInfo and HDTuner (that'S the one which identified the problems on my HDD and my old SSD).

I'm noow downloading a few games to see if there is still a problem with playing games. Could it be that the HDD caused the freezing? Though the games I played weren't installed on that drive, maybe it had some kind of impact on the performance. I also noticed some kind of screeching sound coming from my HDD - that's being going on for a while now but I never had any problems with the drive so far. But maybe I just got lucky that the broken sectors weren't used ?

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

Yes, a failing drive often stalls out your computer, its very annoying.

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Thank you guys for your help. Even though the games I played were not on that broken HDD, it seems to be the cause of the freezing. Everything works fine now.