New SSD causing large FPS drops in some games

[Dwight Hut Pizza]

So I recently got a new Samsung SSD with 1 TB of space on it and I started transferring some of my games over to that SSD. For some reason though I've noticed that in a couple games I tested so far there has been a huge FPS drop when moving the games over being in particular Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Watch Dogs: Legion. In Kingdom Come: Deliverance I had my FPS counter up while I was comparing the game on my hard drive and SSD and having the game on my hard drive over the SSD gave a massive 10-15 FPS boost in most circumstances. If anyone knows what could be causing this please let me know.

[Omega]

The disk your game runs from does not affect FPS. If the disk is too slow you will get stutter, not an FPS drop.

Only explantation I can think off would be that you bought an NVMe SSD and it stole some PCI-e lanes from your GPU.

[Autumn_]

What hardware do you have?

[Dwight Hut Pizza]

Originally posted by Autumn_:

What hardware do you have?

GPU : Radeon RX 570 Series
CPU : AMD FX(tm)-4300 Quad-Core Processor
Ram : 16 GB

Not exactly the most optimal for playing those types of games as my CPU doesn't even meet minimum for Watch Dogs: Legion but I play it anyways. For Kingdom Come: Deliverance my setup at least meets minimum.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

SSD has nothing to do with fps. SSD will benefit every time you see a loading bar, that's it. The cause of fps loss is likely something else.
The most common cause of fps loss on an adequate machine is clockspeed throttle do to poor thermals. Ram running in single-channel is another cause.

[_I_]

fx cpu will the the bottleneck for games newer than 10 years old

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Originally posted by Dwight Hut Pizza:

CPU : AMD FX(tm)-4300 Quad-Core Processor

That cpu will throttle and die with those games you mentioned. That needs an upgrade ASAP.

[_I_]

fx doesnt really throttle properly, it will more likely overheat and crash if the cooler is poor or dusty

fx has a very low max temp, 62-72c depending on the cpu

[Bing Chilling]

disregarding your 10 year old cpu
and getting onto your actual question

having your fps go down from a SSD makes no sense
any HDD or SSD isn't going to cause framerate issues
if you had a bad drive, assets and textures would fail to load in
like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0C37sEaMK4
go to 1:15




anyways, when you replaced your HDD with the SSD
did you move around other stuff in the pc?
did you repaste the FX cpu?
move around the cables?
what else did you change
is what im getting at
my first check would be to get something like MSI after burner
and monitor temp/heat of your FX CPU and your GPU

because yeah, having a bad drive wouldn't cause fps issues
it would cause loading and texture issues.

[Dwight Hut Pizza]

Originally posted by StoneYoda:

disregarding your 10 year old cpu
and getting onto your actual question

having your fps go down from a SSD makes no sense
any HDD or SSD isn't going to cause framerate issues
if you had a bad drive, assets and textures would fail to load in
like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0C37sEaMK4
go to 1:15




anyways, when you replaced your HDD with the SSD
did you move around other stuff in the pc?
did you repaste the FX cpu?
move around the cables?
what else did you change
is what im getting at
my first check would be to get something like MSI after burner
and monitor temp/heat of your FX CPU and your GPU

because yeah, having a bad drive wouldn't cause fps issues
it would cause loading and texture issues.

Sorry I should have specified earlier. I didn't replace my HDD with the SSD I just installed it alongside my HDD so I can use both the HDD and SSD.

To answer your questions:
- No I did not repaste the FX cpu.
- No I did not move anything around in my PC except the SATA power cables connected to my power supply just so I could connect it to my SSD

I don't use MSI Afterburner but I just downloaded it so I will definitely mess around with it.

[jamesglen7]

Originally posted by Omega:

The disk your game runs from does not affect FPS. If the disk is too slow you will get stutter, not an FPS drop.

Only explantation I can think off would be that you bought an NVMe SSD and it stole some PCI-e lanes from your GPU.

Omegas response, I believe, addresses your issue. My M.2nvme has dedicated lane and not shared with anything except sata6 which has been disabled in uefi to achieve its performance. Review your mb manual. You could clone your old drive with Samsung Magician software if you have no better options. This software will also update your Samsung drive firmware.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by jamesglen7:

Originally posted by Omega:

The disk your game runs from does not affect FPS. If the disk is too slow you will get stutter, not an FPS drop.

Only explantation I can think off would be that you bought an NVMe SSD and it stole some PCI-e lanes from your GPU.

Omegas response, I believe, addresses your issue. My M.2nvme has dedicated lane and not shared with anything except sata6 which has been disabled in uefi to achieve its performance. Review your mb manual. You could clone your old drive with Samsung Magician software if you have no better options. This software will also update your Samsung drive firmware.

Samsung Magician only handles...
> RAPID Mode On/Off
> Over-provisioning
> Benchmarking
> Drive Status/Health

If need a free disk clone app, use Samsung Data Migration.
If never downloaded their apps and you are cloning to a Samsung SSD, simply Google > Samsung SSD and go to the Support page for those and look in the Download section for these two pieces of software. Always ensure you use the latest version when available.

Samsung Data Migration will ONLY allow a user to do a disk clone TO a Samsung SSD.
It will not allow doing clone backups to any other drives.

[jamesglen7]

Yes Bad Motha, my mistake. Migration for cloning, Magician for testing. Samsung specific.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I use Magician to ensure my drives firmware is up to date and to enable Rapid Mode, after this you don't really need it. I keep it on the system however because it is linked to the Rapid Mode Driver, however the app that runs in the background can be removed from OS Startup and Task Scheduler, as that simply is not needed.