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Mr Swine · Aug 23, 2013

My computer has been working great until this morning. Started up as normal and when I wanted to play stalker Clear sky my PC became unresponsive. It took a good 10 minutes before I could restart my PC but the same problem persisted.

Looked at Task Manager and the HDD is at 100% load all the time. Did a windows error checking on the HDD and a Windows Maintenance but both said there was no problem at all. I did find out (I think) that its Service Host Local Service that is causing the problem. I have now my PC turned of and no power cord plugged in. If the same problem is still there then what am I supposed to do?

strata8 · Aug 23, 2013

Doesn't the Win 8 task manager show what programs are using the HDD?

Tacitus_ · Aug 23, 2013

strata8 said:
Doesn't the Win 8 task manager show what programs are using the HDD?

Yup.

Mr Swine · Aug 23, 2013

strata8 said:
Doesn't the Win 8 task manager show what programs are using the HDD?

Yeah, it was service host and another one. But looking at the resource manager it was service host that is using the HDD. I'm going to start my PC in 10 minutes and I hope to god it's gone :/

Tacitus_ · Aug 23, 2013

Mr Swine said:
Yeah, it was service host and another one. But looking at the resource manager it was service host that is using the HDD. I'm going to start my PC in 10 minutes and I hope to god it's gone :/

If it's not gone, try downloading UBCD and running a deep HDD check from there.

strata8 · Aug 23, 2013

Mr Swine said:
Yeah, it was service host and another one. But looking at the resource manager it was service host that is using the HDD. I'm going to start my PC in 10 minutes and I hope to god it's gone :/

The Resource Monitor should be able to tell you what file it's writing to under the 'Disk Activity' tab, so check that out as well if it's still there.

DarkFlow · Aug 23, 2013

Sounds like it's defraging, see how often you have it set to do.

PetriP-TNT · Aug 23, 2013

Yup, sounds like defrag. Windows 8 does it in kinda funny way that can make it seem that your computer is doing 100% HDD usage for a long time if you have installed something big recently.

Mr Swine · Aug 23, 2013

Hi again!

Seems that it was Stalker that messed things up. Started the game and loaded a save file which took 4-5 minutes. The game froze for like a half second every 5 seconds but upon exiting the game my HDD usage went from 100% to 0%.

Scanned my computer and found no virus so far. So did Stalker do something and effed up windows somehow?

DarkFlow said:
Sounds like it's defraging, see how often you have it set to do.

PetriP-TNT said:
Yup, sounds like defrag. Windows 8 does it in kinda funny way that can make it seem that your computer is doing 100% HDD usage for a long time if you have installed something big recently.

Would it stop if I started to play a game?

verbum · Aug 23, 2013

I remembered seeing a post on a Steam forum about Stalker and Win8.
Here it is:

I don`t know if you still got this problem, but i got near identical trouble, which drove me crazy for days. <to make it short: i jaust disbled steam overlay in Win 8... and guess what? That friggin` game startet for the first time AND let me set all options in the menue AND start new game without crashing.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/4500/discussions/0/828925849274618212/#p1

But then others said they run the game and have overlay enabled.

PetriP-TNT · Aug 23, 2013

Mr Swine said:
Would it stop if I started to play a game?

It should, it's designed to do it when your computer is doing something insignificant. But then again, it could be that Stalker is doing something that makes the filesystem/W8 confused. And yeah, turn off Steam Overlay for a test.

Mr Swine · Aug 23, 2013

PetriP-TNT said:
It should, it's designed to do it when your computer is doing something insignificant. But then again, it could be that Stalker is doing something that makes the filesystem/W8 confused. And yeah, turn off Steam Overlay for a test.

I guess so. My PC is working fine so far but yeah I'm going to turn off the Steam Overlay in the future if it happens more

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