M17x-R1 (4870 XF) Very Slow load times - Suggestions?

Ive been noticing in games that this thing is loading REALLY... REALLY slow. Comparing it to my old laptop (Gateway 7805u 320g 7200 RPM HDD) and it loads about 20 seconds faster into a Bad Company map on the same connection

So I even upgraded to a 256Gig SSD with still poor performane. The windows index rating on Disk transfer speed is still a 5.9

Not sure what I can do but it should be performing a lot better than this.

Any Ideas?

specs
QX 9300
4gigs of 1333 ram
256gig SSD
500 gig HDD 7200 rpm 2nd slot
4870XF

does anyone know what the best driver to use for the Disk Drive controller is? Link maybe?

 

been working on trying to fix this all night, even updated the BIOS. tried windows drivers, nvidia drivers.

Still got slow load times in games and still a WIR of 5.9.


Also im getting a transfer rate of about 108mpbs. manufacture claims around 200mbps.

Kingston V Series 128 gig

 

is the SSD drive the windows boot drive or not?

Is the game installed the SSD drive or the Hard drive?

Here the best idea reinstall windows useing your SSD drive as your main Hard drive and game. None Power hungry software Move to the Hard drive. Do not Raid your setup.

 

the OS is on the SSD, and steam is also on there.


But even when i was running the factory 500 gig 7200RPM drive i was getting beat by like 10-20 seconds loading bfbc2 against equally spec'd drives.

 

are you playing Online or single player. Alot of times it there server that slow even the Best gaming system.

 

online.. but everyone i'm comparing myself to is loading to the same server. But regardless if HD Tune is Correct its only reading/writing about 100mbps

 

If you are running windows 7, do not install the nvidia storage drivers. This will mess with the SSD and it will not perform to its full potential.
I had the same issue until I removed the Nvidia storage driver and used just the windows 7 ones.

 

windows 7 Ultimate. Just installed it on the drive. So its not the alienware special. I was using the windows driver at first, then installed the nvidia to see if it helped.. I switch back real quick and see what it does.


EDIT: still not luck

 

What if the ssd is Faulty. Mybe a idea is Stress test your SSD drive. Please ask people on this fourm to give you good websites to stress the SSD Drive. But if your normal hard drive faster then a SSD drive mybe it time to look at the hard drive stress test it and see if there errors.

 

maybe, but my friend to who i got this off of had this drive in his desktop for awhile and it didn't have these problems. its just seems like im experiencing this with more than one drive.

So I'm starting to believe its something else. im just not sure what.

 

Did you try the crystalmark hdd benchmark

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html

See what the write speeds are.. This will tell you if the drive is performing as it should.

btw for windows 7, the best controller driver is the default for windows.. So just stay on that..

Do you have any antivirus that is slowing it down as well?

You can also read this thread.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=452651

Has some screen shots to make sure trim and proper driver is installed.

 

well ran the test, it says the speeds are around 98mbps. when this drive was doing 250mbps in my friends desktop.

 

Good to Know as this has been happening to me aswell in the same game.

 

Well Maybe a driver for the drive ect.. I dont know the type, but you can go to the manufacturer website and see if they have a tool box for it to run and see whats going on.

What settings do you have set in teh bios? ACHI? for the sata hdd? That maybe the problem too and will limit your speeds.

 

The BIOS is ACHI Legacy. (which is faster? ACHI or ATA)

The Manufactures website doesn't have anything (kingston). Intel actually made the drive, but abandoned Kingston and dropped support from what i'm reading on forums.

the only thing i found on updating the firmware on the disk is this..

http://www.overclock.net/ssd/656984-how-get-your-kingston-40gb-ssd.html

but i'm not totally sure how to do this.

 

achi is what you want.. well u could take the drive out and try in another system again and see if speeds change.. Other than what I have listed I cant think of anything else. Sorry...

As for the flashing.. you could try that but you could brick it and then be without the ssd.. So do so at your own risk.

 

This happens to me on my desktop as well. I have a 4890 HIS Radeon card in that. I googled slow loading for bc2 and found this.

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/...c2-pc-still-slow-loading-map-good-system.html

Hopefully it helps with your question, however it doesn't look like there is a solution yet.

 

yeah... I'm still thinking its something with the computer.. because even the 500gig 7200rpm drive loaded slow when compared to drives of the same specs.

Later today my buddy's bringing over another of the same SSD that he tested in his desktop at home and tested at 210R and 200W(even though he said this one performed the same). So if we toss that in and it slows beyond belief ill know its the computer. Just not sure how to fix it.


EDIT: its more than just slow loaded in bfbc:2 The Drive isn't performing as it should judging by all the benching on doing on it. In a desktop the drive is performing twice as good.

 

that seems like a valid issue, but i feel that that is just compounding on a pre-existing problem.