DC_DarklingJoin Date: 2003-07-10Member: 18068Members, Constellation, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver
if your d drive needs replacement and money isnt supertight id go for a hybrid drive. (I could say ssd, but I assume thats to small for your goals)
hybrid drives have a small ssd cache buildin so its winwin.
IronHorseDeveloper, QA Manager, Technical Support & contributorJoin Date: 2010-05-08Member: 71669Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Subnautica Playtester, Subnautica PT Lead, Pistachionauts
edited November 2013
Well glad to hear that was the case, at least, thanks for posting the solution.
and you're welcome
I recommend steering clear of samsung hard drives, just for the record, i've personally had a really poor experience with them dying over time. (something like 4/5 for me personally )
Recommend Seagate and Western Digital
I attempted to solve the freezes problem by moving the game to a less occupied drive (my C drive which just has windows and some bare bones programs at the moment), freezes doubled in length lol
IronHorseDeveloper, QA Manager, Technical Support & contributorJoin Date: 2010-05-08Member: 71669Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Subnautica Playtester, Subnautica PT Lead, Pistachionauts
@ghosthree3
I still attest that you should start a new thread and follow what this fellow here did in regards to documenting it for me to analyze.
If its fileopen issues like he had, then we can begin to narrow it down
DC_DarklingJoin Date: 2003-07-10Member: 18068Members, Constellation, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver
start making plogs @Ghosthree3
And you DID install your ahci and/or raid drivers DURING win7 install and not after right? Yes, this matters a lot. Kernel starts behaving.... odd if you install ahci later.
You must have either ahci OR raid installed AND on in the bios or you are throwing away enormous amounts of performance. (Asuming you have a os higher then xp).
And ahci drivers, especially for the OS disk, must be supplied during windows install and not after unless you want... odd results. (odd kernel hangs for example).
It is VERY adviced to run with ahci/raid.
I updated my bios at some point, almost certain before latest reformat, after installing windows I installed LAN, audio, and usb3.0 drivers. That's all I've done, I thought ahci was included by default in bios? I'm pretty sure I saw at some point in there ahci is turned on. If I've been losing out on shitloads of performance all these years because I was unaware of supplying these drivers when installing windows I'mma be sad.
I don't raid though, can't really since my big drives are just media/other random storage. All games on one 1tb drive.
DC_DarklingJoin Date: 2003-07-10Member: 18068Members, Constellation, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver
edited November 2013
Fine you newbie.
A few general points though, I doubt its as worse as you just said.
IF it is on in the bios, then windows 7 will enable ahci on microsoft drivers. While there give the utmost bare minimum, they do give some performance gain over no ahci.
Installing correct ahci drivers lateron will also gain some performance.
Best result is still during windows install with preos/diskette drivers for ahci.
The bios is just a on/off and does not supply drivers.
As a side note, I DO use raid (instead of ahci). My data is running in 2 WesternDigital raid edition disks in a raid 1 (mirror) config. (so I dont need to restore from backup if one breaks). (1TB)
My games are on a raid 1 (mirror) array with 2 seagate hybrid drives. (2TB)
my os, and currently ns2 is on a sata 6g ssd which runs on my 6g controller.
Raid isnt just for speed, depending on raid type.
>edit
also people, do NOT forget to ALSO install chipset drivers! VERY important. Yes, this can be done after windows is installed<
>edit2
also get online then, im getting bored. hehe<
DC_DarklingJoin Date: 2003-07-10Member: 18068Members, Constellation, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver
From wikipedia: A chipset is a set of electronic components in an integrated circuit that manages the data flow between the processor, memory and peripherals.
Lets just agree its important and move on. Saves a lot of time. I dont wanna get to hardware technical, but end result of installing chipset drivers has always given me more stable systems.
raid 5 takes a lot of disks. :O (and yes, im on steam atm)
Also the only RAID I think I'd be interested in is 5.
Chipset drivers allow your operating system to take advantage of specific features of your motherboard. In general it will allow smarter I/O control, faster I/O throughput, and a more stable installation.
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hybrid drives have a small ssd cache buildin so its winwin.
for laptops you wanna go for momentus drives:
http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/laptop-hard-drives/laptop-solid-state-hybrid-drive/?sku=ST1000LM014
Of course it only caches the stuff you load often, but that shouldnt be a real issue as a normal drive has no ssd cache to begin with.
and you're welcome
I recommend steering clear of samsung hard drives, just for the record, i've personally had a really poor experience with them dying over time. (something like 4/5 for me personally )
Recommend Seagate and Western Digital
I still attest that you should start a new thread and follow what this fellow here did in regards to documenting it for me to analyze.
If its fileopen issues like he had, then we can begin to narrow it down
And you DID install your ahci and/or raid drivers DURING win7 install and not after right? Yes, this matters a lot. Kernel starts behaving.... odd if you install ahci later.
:O
:O
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The wut now?
You must have either ahci OR raid installed AND on in the bios or you are throwing away enormous amounts of performance. (Asuming you have a os higher then xp).
And ahci drivers, especially for the OS disk, must be supplied during windows install and not after unless you want... odd results. (odd kernel hangs for example).
It is VERY adviced to run with ahci/raid.
I updated my bios at some point, almost certain before latest reformat, after installing windows I installed LAN, audio, and usb3.0 drivers. That's all I've done, I thought ahci was included by default in bios? I'm pretty sure I saw at some point in there ahci is turned on. If I've been losing out on shitloads of performance all these years because I was unaware of supplying these drivers when installing windows I'mma be sad.
I don't raid though, can't really since my big drives are just media/other random storage. All games on one 1tb drive.
Add me on steam and teach me pls.
A few general points though, I doubt its as worse as you just said.
IF it is on in the bios, then windows 7 will enable ahci on microsoft drivers. While there give the utmost bare minimum, they do give some performance gain over no ahci.
Installing correct ahci drivers lateron will also gain some performance.
Best result is still during windows install with preos/diskette drivers for ahci.
The bios is just a on/off and does not supply drivers.
As a side note, I DO use raid (instead of ahci). My data is running in 2 WesternDigital raid edition disks in a raid 1 (mirror) config. (so I dont need to restore from backup if one breaks). (1TB)
My games are on a raid 1 (mirror) array with 2 seagate hybrid drives. (2TB)
my os, and currently ns2 is on a sata 6g ssd which runs on my 6g controller.
Raid isnt just for speed, depending on raid type.
>edit
also people, do NOT forget to ALSO install chipset drivers! VERY important. Yes, this can be done after windows is installed<
>edit2
also get online then, im getting bored. hehe<
Also the only RAID I think I'd be interested in is 5.
raid 5 takes a lot of disks. :O (and yes, im on steam atm)
Chipset drivers allow your operating system to take advantage of specific features of your motherboard. In general it will allow smarter I/O control, faster I/O throughput, and a more stable installation.
I do hate your mobo.
to be continueeeeed