SSD Reads and Writes exceeding 20GB

Houston - we have a problem.

I'm going to monitor as well, I just looked at my Samsung EVO SSD.   The total read/writes is absurd.

EA may very well have to answer for the excessive wear and tear on my drive.  It is well beyond acceptable. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.  Keep this thread alive and publicize at your leisure.  I'll be monitoring this thread with interest.

I can understand a fairly high amount of reads but would not expect a similar amount of writes. I assume no other processes are running in the background such as dowloads/torrents etc?

Interested to see other players input on this.

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@EA_Barry wrote:

I can understand a fairly high amount of reads but would not expect a similar amount of writes. I assume no other processes are running in the background such as dowloads/torrents etc?

Interested to see other players input on this.

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Ongoing investigation into high resource allocation/usage

go to the very first post of this thread (by me)

it may answer your question,

specifiaclly about misallocation of resources.

the game may be misidentifying the SSD.

Thats a good post, interested to see what happens on this.

Thanks for the replies everyone. I've had a couple developments, namely that I'm getting different responses from different programs. SSD monitoring programs seem to report extremely high reads and writes, but when I watch Process Explorer's take on things I see ONLY high reads (which makes sense) and very low writes (e.g. 100MB).

As for misallocation of resources, interestingly I have very few issues with draw distance and the like. My problems were primarily crashes, which I posted about here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/Constant-white-screen-crashes-What-fixed-it-for-me/td-p/4127736 But if the drive is being misrecognized that could explain a lot.

It would be great to get a clear answer as to what's happening. If those extreme writes ARE happening, it means our drives are being positively thrashed by the game. But given what I've seen in Process Explorer, now I'm not sure what's actually happening.

in my experience with this game and it's meriad of issues,

i have recently started monitoring my system resources,

I turned off my pagefile completely, being that I have 32GB of ram in my system...

but get this... while playing the game (with no pagefile system active) the game is allocating upto 16GB to my page file,

and up to an equal ammount of ram.

my dual videocards each have 2GB vram (in crossfirex currently).... vram usage is telling me that the game is using 2673 MB / 2048MB on the first card....

I have an 8core cpu at 4Ghz, and it is pegged at 100% during splash and load screens.... and as high as 80% during gameplay.

I am trying to figure out why the game, firstly, is allocating anything to something that is not there.

and how it is allocating usage or space beyond what is physically there.

but with these issues, i can understand why I have such bad performance, stuttering, lag, and such.

I just want to know how and why it is happening.

my point is, (getting back to the original post) is that with the misallocation/usage, perhaps the pagefile is what you see as the large writes to your SSD?

Interesting, yes that could certainly be a big factor. Now I'm wondering whether Process Explorer takes writes to the pagefile into account or not... That would be a key distinction.

I do not have an ssd installed on my system, 

however the read/write is not listed for/to HDD.

So (and this is only an educated guess at this point)

I would expect, that the read/write to the SSD is also not listed.

-edit-

however, in programs like MSI afterburner, you can graph the 

pagefile usage, as well as ram usage. In my experience with this game, 

even without an active pagefile on my system, the game is allocating

upto 16GB to the non existant page file... {I do not know if this is due to 

file caching, shadow copying, or similar processes.}

which is why I am thinking along the lines of the SSD getting so many

large writes to it. which is of course a concern, being that SSDs

have a finite number of writes/writeovers in thier lifespan.

-side note- if using programs like MSI afterburner, and they have

something similar to RTSS (RivaTunerStatisticsServer) do not install it!

it, in-and-of-itself, is extremely cpu intensive.

instead, just use the OS included, desktop gadget for monitoring your cpu and ram usage. 

Curiously, I am now seeing normal values in both programs I have been using to monitor this (SSDReady and Process Explorer). Writes and reads have both gone from 30GB per hour down to ~500MB. There was a minor Origin update today, I'm wondering if that had something to do with it.

Yesterday in Process Explorer, Origin actually had far more writes (50GB) than Dragon Age Inquisition (7GB). I had reinstalled the game that day however and assumed that was the reason. Today I'm showing just 12MB and 2MB for each respectively.

My thought now is that there may be some particular trigger that causes an extreme misallocation of resources sometimes but not others. That would explain why some people check their read/writes and go, "What are you talking about, it looks fine" while others clearly see huge fluctuations.

can you please explain how you are able to see the reads and writes to the drive for those of us who are not as tech saavy?

how you set up the filters, and such? Thank you, very much, in advance. 🙂