Unusual slowdown in your hard drive performance?
Unusual slowdown in your hard drive performance?
I have an Acer Aspire E15, it has i5 4210M, 4gb RAM, 1tb HDD, and 940m (2gb ddr3). It didn't ship with windows as I already had a copy. Turned out, the copy I had was Enterprise edition. I installed it anyway, and the laptop word as expected, and all the games that I played (GTA V, Dirt RALLY, Skyrim) all worked smoothly at reasonable settings (around 720p, medium). When I installed the Windows 10 Home edition, Skyrim and Dirt works fine, but as soon as I start playing GTA V, the whole game gives me massive framedrops (15-10 fps from steady 40). The game settings doesn't seem to matter with regard to frame drop - at 1080p low, the game runs at 30fps, but after sometime the same thing happens. I'm experiencing similar issue with Battlefield 1. Looking at the task manager when I'm playing the game, I observed that System was taking waay too much of HDD, and the framedrop correlates to the increase in System activity. When I right click and select properties, it shows the name ntoskrnl.exe which I suspect is the culprit. Basic googling suggested that I update all my drivers, the network card in particular, but it didn't help in my case. Enterprise ran the games decently, I wonder what the problem with Home version is!!! Any suggestion guys??
It's strange it functioned well before Windows 10. I think you might be running out of memory. Installing more space—like an additional 4GB—could help resolve the issue.
I understand your concern, but it functioned perfectly in Enterprise edition. What could possibly prevent it from working on Home edition?
Enterprice might offer improved RAM management together with a larger pagefile. For the GTA V series, it seems they require significant RAM and a big pagefile as well.
Running Witcher III with just 4GB of RAM causes significant performance issues.