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    Excessive SSD Writes from TD2 - Need Confirmation

    Afternoon all,

    I've noticed whilst playing TD2 that the game is writing what I would consider excessive amounts of data to my SSD. As you know SSD's life-spans are somewhat linked to the amount of data written to them and I'd like to confirm others are experiencing similar behaviour.

    If you have an SSD would you guys mind doing the following and reporting back your results?

    1. Download HWInfo to monitor your system. Download Link - Official Site
    2. Open HWInfo and make sure the section relevant to your SSD is displayed. (You're looking for "Write Total")
    3. Monitor how many MB's / GB's are being written whilst the game is open over a set time period (I'd suggest 10-30minutes)


    An important note, make sure you don't have any downloads, streams or any other sources that could be writing data to your drive open. This will mess with the results...

    Let me know what you find.
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    I've give it a go, but in the mean time, why not share what you've found instead of being all click baity about it? For example compare Division 2 to Division 1 and other non-Ubi games.
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    I held back my results specifically to avoid people jumping on a band wagon and I thought my title was pretty descriptive of my experience if you ask me. Not sure what I did to deserve such a hostile response.

    Interested to hear what people see regardless.
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    That response wasn't hostile. Excessive is subjective. It is 10x more disk writes than Division 1? is it 100x or 1000x more disk writes than Anthem? We need to understand your baseline for acceptable writes to a disk by a game to understand excessive. Just posting hyperbole doesn't help. We need objective numbers.


    I've never used HWInfo before, where does it show a list of writes to the drive? So far it just seems like a mostly static temperature monitoring application.
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    I ran ProcessMonitor and captured all the disk writes from TheDivision2.exe and after 3 minutes of running around, shooting enemies I had this:


    The writes were predominantly 1KB writes to a png file in the 'imagecache ' directory.
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    Could you check HWInfo, this category in particular and monitor how/if 'Total Host Writes' increases? Thanks in advance!

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    Tests from quite a few years ago show that worrying about "excessive writes" to SSDs are considerably overblown.

    https://techreport.com/review/27909/...heyre-all-dead

    It took 18 months of near constant 100% disk activity to have the best performers die off, 4 years ago.
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    I have two drives.
    The game is on the Corsair,
    Windows is on the Samsung Evo.

    Not seeing anything unexpected, 10KB/s writes to C:\ match up with logging and those png writes I mentioned above approx 12MB every time you start the game.

    Lots of read activity which I would expect given I was running around loading assets etc.



    Looking at this tool to figure out what a single application is doing is kind of tricky. There's no way to separate out what activity is the game and what is Windows or a driver or anything else.

    So now I've shared, it's your turn.
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  9. #9
    @covertone are you still there? Bueller?
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    There is standard windows tool "Resource Monitor" that can help you see this activity.

    * Press "Win+R"
    * Type "pefmon /res" (start Performance Monitor)
    * Press "Ctrl+Shift+Enter" (to run it as admin)
    * Select "Disk" tab
    * Sort by "Write (B/sec)" column

    This doesn't seem to be a second-to-second average but rather a somekind of window over written byte count, so it reacts on maybe 3-5 sec delay.

    This was how I diagnosed TD1 wanting a lot more ram than the 8G that some fool bundled with i7 6700K, smh..
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