Proof that disk space really does help Options

[Konji]

This is just to prove to you all that having a lot of space on C: really helps your performance.

After all my downloading exploits I had ended up with around 50 MB left on my hard drive.
I attempted to play Oblivion, but was running on all low settings, reduced draw distance and no grass and it was still slightly choppy. This is on a high end PC.

Now I have 13.8GB free after a mad deleting spree and it runs max perfectly.

So there you go, a lesson for you all to clean your disk drives if you're having trouble.

[Olav]

Yeah, my old hard disk was at the point where it wouldn't defrag. It just stopped after a while (several hours). Left it on while I was at work one day, but still at the same % when I came home.

I defrag my new hard drive at least once a week. Even then there are hundreds of fragged files, sometimes with 1000s of segments, even though the disk is about 1/3 full (160 GB Raptor X).