Would any of this be considered alarming to anyone? Could it be related to my problems? And, could this be CPU throttling? GPU-Z used during unmodded skyrim test where the hitching kept happening. 1550 MB memory used at peak, GPU load was 67%. Never heard the fans come on. Unsettling feeling, and confusion.
Sanctrum wrote:
Maybe try this...
Download hdparm for Windows and install.
Set appropriate "run as administrator" for the exe file
Run "as administrator" cmd console and "navigate" to hdparm installation directory, and execute IF your HDD drive is C:
(if not C then read hdparm manual to set it up accordingly)
hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda
REMEMBER that the above command will work UNTILL the FIRST sleep and/or hibernation of your laptop (eg. when you close the laptops lid/screen)... so you must to REPEAT it after the laptop wakes up.
Tested at Win7 and WD scorpio 500GB 2,5' drive... Without it I expereience LAG's not only during games but also in the system (ge. starting another window of firefox, etc.).
If it solves your problem than search google how to make it to start automatically after each system restart and how to switch off all automatic sleep/hibernation when the laptop is AC powered.
Northforge wrote:
I think you're suggesting the problem could be Windows is trying to sleep/hibernate while gaming? Must be a way to monitor for that. Too much unknown to apply a fix that might not be necessary.
Sanctrum/Northforge, hdparam is setting the same thing as quiethdd, but hdparam wasn't working correctly last I tried it. I used to use it before quiethdd came out, so it was the first thing I tried on my G750JW with a 750GB drive. Fortunately I found quiethdd and it did work 🙂
Northforge seems to be having a problem with something else in addition to what he sees when running a game from an HDD.
Did you say you had 8GB at one point and were wondering if adding another matching SODIMM would give you Dual Channel memory bandwidth and that might help?
It also might be that you still have paging turned on, and even though you have enough memory your pagefile is growing dynamically - default setting.
8GB is a little light, but still doable to run without a paging file, as long as you remember that Windows doesn't like getting closer than about 20% to the end of usable / reported free memory.
If you can watch to make sure you stay at no more than 80% memory usage, you will be ok - or add more memory.
I also disable Fastboot (in Windows, but leave it on in BIOS) and disable Hibernate. I run with no pagefile on machines with 8GB or more, but started out when 4GB was feasible.
No backing store writing / accessing the disk should remove the last HDD, or even SSD related storage glitch. When the pagefile disk access coincides with the app access, someone has to wait for their data - causing a glitch.
How to disable or enable Fast Startup in Windows 8.1
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-or-enable-fast-startup-in-windows-8-1/
You can also disable Hibernate, upon which Fast Startup (and fast shutdown) rely on via an Administrator cmd window with:
powercfg hibernate off
But, the first method works too, using the GUI to uncheck Hibernate, Fast Startup, Sleep (optional)
The nice side benefit is that doing this removes the pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys wasted space from your C partition, for me 64GB freed up on a 237GB SSD, big win. 🙂
Please give it a try and see if you notice any effect on the gaming from the SSD/HDD (with quiethdd set for APM 255 / disable).
Give it a try and see if it affects the
Northforge wrote:
And SDD. I've tried all my games in various drives
Negative. G751JY-DH73 24GB RAM GTX 980M 4GB. I can't really look into hw upgrades. I'd sooner return the laptop and be done with it. My 3 year old G74SX-DH72 16GB RAM GTX 560M 3GB runs Skyrim better, and it shouldn't be that way. Thing is, I'm leaning towards what was said before. It has to be a configuration setting. Has to be.
No, I've had pagefile off for several days. Only yesterday I turned it back on. System managed. I'll set it to 8GB if you recommend it.
Northforge, with 24GB you don't need a pagefile. If you have software that needs it, 200MB- 800MB should be enough.
I don't understand, from out of the box, with Windows and driver updates - and no other software - you should be seeing smooth local and network (ethernet connected) game play - with the G751 remove the Game First III and Game Center stuff.
What Security / AV software do you have installed?
Are you watching for background processes with Task Manager / Resource Monitor - I find them by leaving it open sorted by top read or write, then drop back into the desktop to see what it caught when I see a glitch. If I see any process I don't want I track it down and uninstall it to see if that was it.
This was just a test, and it shows PerfectDisk as the source of the disk IO.
Are you using Nvidia GeforceExperience optimizations, if Yes, uninstall and do them yourself, or if No, then try them 🙂
Are any games running, locally or network (ethernet connected) ok?
hmscott wrote:
Northforge, with 24GB you don't need a pagefile. If you have software that needs it, 200MB- 800MB should be enough.
I don't understand, from out of the box, with Windows and driver updates - and no other software - you should be seeing smooth local and network (ethernet connected) game play - with the G751 remove the Game First III and Game Center stuff.
Game First III and Game Center removed again yesterday morning. Tested after.
hmscott wrote:
What Security / AV software do you have installed?
First laptop I had avast, and this laptop has not had any installed. MaCafee was removed early on both laptops.
hmscott wrote:
Are you watching for background processes with Task Manager / Resource Monitor - I find them by leaving it open sorted by top read or write, then drop back into the desktop to see what it caught when I see a glitch. If I see any process I don't want I track it down and uninstall it to see if that was it.
I've watched it closely, but lately not so much. I'll remember to keep watching it.
hmscott wrote:
This was just a test, and it shows PerfectDisk as the source of the disk IO.
Perfect disk? I don't believe I have perfect disk.
hmscott wrote:
Are you using Nvidia GeforceExperience optimizations, if Yes, uninstall and do them yourself, or if No, then try them 🙂
Are any games running, locally or network (ethernet connected) ok?
I had set GeForce optimizations at first, but yesterday morning I uninstalled GeForce Experience. Tested, and tested various performance settings (less than my G74SX settings) but still hitching.
Resource Monitor sounds like it could be extremely useful.
I wish I had it.
I kept trying to open it from the performance monitor window. It kept opening a browser with just "config" so I checked the file location and thats the error I get when I click on resmon. When I type resmon in search and hit enter, it opens.
Result 1 (just tabbed out, Skyrim still running. Observed several hitches before tabbing out.)
Northforge, from PM, Resource Manager shows up in the Task Manager Performance Tab in blue letters at the bottom left side Open Resource Manager:
hmscott wrote:
Northforge, from PM, Resource Manager shows up in the Task Manager Performance Tab in blue letters at the bottom left side Open Resource Manager:
Thank you!
Before staring Aion (started Dragon Nest first, but the servers were down)
Nice and clean.
Here's during Aion login screen (its animated, can still see hitching)
