Curious as to if there is a way to defrag large game files that seem to get skipped by the Windows 7 Defrag as well as Auslogics Defrag. The files are like 6GB or greater in size and it shows them as fragmented and I havent found a way yet to get them to not be fragmented. Tried uninstalling the game, defragmenting drive to collapse data to be more continuous, then reinstalling the game clean and I am right back to the same amount of fragmentation of 30% on a 164.7GB drive with the majority of the fragmentation being with the large game files of a 32GB game install, and other MMORPG games that consume 10GB to 25GB in size.
*Maybe its just the nature of excessively large files that chunks of it are going to fill in the holes between other data segments on the platters, however it seems as though there should be a way to give it a continuous segment somewhere on the drive in the empty area skipping over the smaller gaps that cause it to fragment and cause the drive to have to sweep excessively or spin extra revolutions to wait for the data segment to come around again to read in since there is 36GB free on a 164.7GB drive?
The only thing I havent done with this drive yet, which use to be a trick for better performance years ago was short stroking the drive by making a smaller partition special to an area for data to be located for a faster read. Quick look online it looks like there is a better method than just making a size blindly for the partition, but to test different sizes and look at graph info on performance to find the optimal size that is large enough for the data and not too large that the performance is not optimal:
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-short-stroke-your-hard-drive-for-optimal-speed-1598306074This would all be resolved with a SSD in that older system since it does have SATA ports, but I just figured I'd throw this out for discussion to see if there is a way to resolve the fragmentation issue. I might go the route of short stroking it if that is the direction to go.
RAM needs to get cheaper so I can just load up the game files to a Ramdrive
Although this old computer maxes out at 4GB DDR2