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hasib22
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Hey guys, I ran into something really strange today while playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
Up until now, I’ve been running the game from my NVMe SSD. During gameplay, I would get around 30–34 FPS, with GPU usage stuck at 100% and CPU usage only around 15–20%. The game was barely playable, and to make things worse, the AMD driver would often crash suddenly.
Today, I decided to try running it from my HDD, just to see how much slower it would be. The startup and loading times were definitely slower, but here’s the weird part — during gameplay I was getting 45–50 FPS, and sometimes even 57–63 FPS! In this case, the GPU usage was around 80–90%, while CPU usage jumped to 70–80%. The gameplay felt way smoother, and I didn’t experience any crashes.
This feels completely the opposite of what I’d normally expect. Shouldn’t the NVMe SSD give better performance instead of worse?
My specs:
GPU: RX 560 4GB
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X
RAM: 32GB 3200 MHz
SSD: Kimtigo G7000Q 1TB Gen4 NVMe
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Up until now, I’ve been running the game from my NVMe SSD. During gameplay, I would get around 30–34 FPS, with GPU usage stuck at 100% and CPU usage only around 15–20%. The game was barely playable, and to make things worse, the AMD driver would often crash suddenly.
Today, I decided to try running it from my HDD, just to see how much slower it would be. The startup and loading times were definitely slower, but here’s the weird part — during gameplay I was getting 45–50 FPS, and sometimes even 57–63 FPS! In this case, the GPU usage was around 80–90%, while CPU usage jumped to 70–80%. The gameplay felt way smoother, and I didn’t experience any crashes.
This feels completely the opposite of what I’d normally expect. Shouldn’t the NVMe SSD give better performance instead of worse?
My specs:
GPU: RX 560 4GB
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X
RAM: 32GB 3200 MHz
SSD: Kimtigo G7000Q 1TB Gen4 NVMe
windowsforum.net