Hej Hol. Jeg oprettede for et par dage siden en tråd på Steam forums i håbet om at finde en løsning på mit problem, men 0 svar indtil videre. Tænkte jeg ville prøve lykken herinde, i tilfælde af nogen har oplevet noget lignende. Jeg har lige copy/pastet opslaget herunder. Håber det er okay det er på engelsk, ellers så skal jeg nok oversætte det.
I've listed the things I've tried/checked at the bottom.
My specs are:
X570 Phantom Gaming X
Ryzen 5600
16 GB 3800 MHz @ CL16
Radeon RX 6600 XT
Seasonic Focus+ Gold 750W
C: 250 GB Samsung 850 EVO
D: 500 GB Samsung 860 EVO
E: 1 TB Kingston NV2 (The affected drive)
I've had some issues updating games on one of my secondary drives, and I've only been able to observe this behaviour on games installed to this drive, and only with games installed through Steam (Games installed on game pass, Epic, EA, or Ubisoft doesn't exhibit same behaviour).
The problem occurs after the download is finished and Steam seems to be reading all/large parts of the game installation from the disk. No writing to the disk is going on while this is happening. Specifically, the read speeds will be around 1 MB/s or less with 100% disk utilization for long periods of time before suddenly spiking to 200-400 MB/s for short periods of time (Sometimes a couple of seconds, sometimes for less than a second). The spike in read speeds always coincide with a drop in disk utilization, usually down to 20-30%. I accidentally deleted my first screen grab, but to describe it visually, when watching the disk activity in task manager while updating a game, the disk transfer rate graph will be barely scraping zero for most of time while the disk active time will be at 100%, until the active time graph takes a nosedive and the transfer rate peaks, creating these perfectly, inversely, correlated peaks and troughs in the two graphs.
I was updating Warhammer III yesterday, and reading the 90+ GB game installation after the download finished took about 2-3 hours. The subsequent write portion took no more than a few minutes.
I've already tried:
- Enabling/disabling disk write caching (no difference)
- Whitelisting steam in my AV (no difference)
- Temporarily turning off my AV (no difference)
- Updating the firmware of the affected drive (no difference)
- Changing download region (no difference)
- Clearing the download cache in Steam (no difference)
- Checking the drive health in the kingston software (Perfect health and normal temps)
I'm at a loss here. Games on my primary drive update a
lot faster despite it being a slower drive, simply because the read speeds doesn't exhibit the same erratic behaviour. Hoping someone has some idea what's going on here, because it's driving me nuts.
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