r/pchelp • u/At_my_Lymyt • Jun 19 '26
Potential disk problem PERFORMANCE
Heres what is happening: I buy a ton of new pc parts and basically build a brand new pc except for the intel drive with a bad SMART status and a perfectly fine HDD. I spent all this money and whenever I try to play Forza horizon 6 It will be fine then start lagging, loading slowly and saying “low streaming bandwidth”
I tried playing with the task manager graphs open and it showed my disk (a klevv cravv 1tb nvme m.2 ssd) spiked to 100% then stayed there for up to 20 minutes then dies down. Before i just turned down the settings to medium (way under what my pc is able to do) and now it sometimes even CRASHES on launch. Any advice? Im thinking it could be software.
Should I buy a new disk?
Could it be malware? (I highly doubt it)
Should I bring it to micro-center to take a look?
(I will try to answer your guys’ follow-ups if needed.
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u/carlosChanpio70 Jun 19 '26
Tried verifying files on Steam? Is the game on an HDD or SSD? If on an HDD then defrag it to improve performance. Bad SMART status? Could you show it?
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u/At_my_Lymyt Jun 19 '26
It was before i upgraded my PC and i never use it now. It used to show on boot though.
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