Windows 10: disk usage spikes to 100 when running games

Discus and support disk usage spikes to 100 when running games in Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging to solve the problem; I've been having problems with my laptop crashing for a few weeks now. I've only come to realize that my disk usage spikes to 100 when I'm playing... Discussion in 'Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging' started by Erfan_F, Jul 2, 2021.

  1. Erfan_F Win User

    disk usage spikes to 100 when running games


    I've been having problems with my laptop crashing for a few weeks now. I've only come to realize that my disk usage spikes to 100 when I'm playing games. I was wondering if there was any fix to this issue.

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    Erfan_F, Jul 2, 2021
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  2. 1Dez Win User

    100% Disk usage spike on Windows 10

    Recently I have experienced that when running most applications (especially gaming) my Laptop would have a disk usage spike to 99% or 100%. when I check the task manager there is no specific program using the disk, its just at 100% usually forcing me to
    do a hard restart. baring in mind that when I run the programs the usually run smoothly and very randomly the disk usage spikes. this has only been happening since downloading windows 10. I have read many threads and applied many fixes such as disabling SuperFetch,
    BIT service and windows update. I have also disable cloud based protection which seemed to work for some people but not for me, any other suggestions?
     
    1Dez, Jul 2, 2021
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  3. twilkin17 Win User
    Disk usage spikes to 100 % when using browser.

    I work as an IT service tech and I have ran into this problem as well. I have a HP Pro Book 440 G3. The laptop has a core i5 processor and 8 GB of RAM. I did all the suggested fixes from various forums such as these:

    Windows 10 100% disk usage in Task Manager [SOLVED] - Driver Easy

    Disk usage at 100% windows 10 version 1709

    I did not have any luck fixing the problem. Just opening Edge or Google Chrome makes the disk usage spike up to 100% and it will stay there for a period of time. The 100% usage happens all the time after I login and then will die down for a while until I
    launch an application. There are sometimes when opening an application will make the disk usage spike above 75% which seems odd because its only one application running. No rhyme or reason as to why this happens. Task manager or Resource Monitor does not show
    any solid information as to why this keeps happening. Looking at other laptops with the same configuration the disk usage should not spike above or near 50%.

    I also got a new hard drive and only did a fresh install of Windows 10 with all the latest updates. Still got the same behavior. This is certainly a Windows 10 issue as it has been documented though many forums using different manufactures of laptops (Dell,
    HP, Asus, etc..)

    Its a shame I have a relatively new laptop that I cannot deploy to users since I am cautious about the performance and having to troubleshoot this for an end user. I hope there will be more attention to this because it has been happening to people for years
    now.
     
    twilkin17, Jul 2, 2021
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  4. disk usage spikes to 100 when running games

    Why does me disk usage spike to 100% when playing games

    Just recently when playing games on my pc control panel will show my disk usage at 100% and the games with stutter a bit. This recently started happening
    I checked my HDD health with Crystal Disk Info and it says it's good. Anyone else experiencing this issue I could really use some help

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    cryptic221, Jul 2, 2021
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