How to fix 100% disk usage on Biostar H310MHD3 in Dragon's Dogma 2?
Trying to run a modern AAA title on this old board is like trying to breathe through a straw. The moment I enter a town, the FPS plummets from 45 down to 12—it's basically a slideshow. The slow bus on the Biostar H310MHD3 can only handle 400-600MB/s during heavy NPC loading, which forces the system into constant page swapping. I tried moving the game to a different SATA drive, but that just added 30 seconds to the load times, which was a total waste of my afternoon. I eventually manually locked the virtual memory at 32GB and disabled the Windows Indexing service to stop the I/O hammering. In Resource Monitor, I saw disk response times drop from 150-300ms to a much better 45-70ms, and the stutters in town became way less frequent. I actually set the page file too large at first and it slowed down my boot time, so I had to find a middle ground. Board temps are 58-65℃ and the drive is at 42-48℃. I exported the I/O logs to confirm the fix. It's still an old board, so don't expect miracles.
