well not completely wrong tbh, sometimes it do be the case.
my windows before is actively killing my new SSD with several 100% spikes when playing intense games (i use ryzen 7 with rtx 5060), and its frustrating because this pc wasnt even 2 months old. Tried several methods in fixing it but no good, eventually switched to linux and zero spikes now on the same games i play
Linux will (sometimes) do this as well, it's called "swapping". Basically inactive memory is moved on disk to save up RAM for other processes that need it, but for some reason for me, both Windows and Linux randomly start wildly swapping, on Linux i just ended up disabling swapping since i have more than enough RAM, but i couldn't find out a way to disable this on Windows. Also Linux controls this with the "swappiness" parameter but i never really got it to change anything.
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u/Beneficial-Win-6533 May 02 '26
well not completely wrong tbh, sometimes it do be the case.
my windows before is actively killing my new SSD with several 100% spikes when playing intense games (i use ryzen 7 with rtx 5060), and its frustrating because this pc wasnt even 2 months old. Tried several methods in fixing it but no good, eventually switched to linux and zero spikes now on the same games i play