I’ve run into a snag with game development.

DD Tokki

DD Tokki

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I upgraded my PC's OS to Windows 11, but ever since then, everything involving the HDD has slowed down significantly; I’m now planning to replace the 5TB hard drive I’ve been using for about a decade.

It got to the point where even saving a file in Notepad would cause the system to freeze—as if it had crashed—taking about 30 seconds to complete the save. Since other programs were behaving the same way, making progress on the game became difficult.

For the record, the OS is installed on an SSD.
I’m currently running a disk defragmentation on the HDD, but it feels like I’ve spent the entire day doing absolutely nothing else.
 
danno said:
The only advice I could give is the same @DCurrent gave me years ago, open a GitHub account and put all your projects on it, GitHub is a little difficult to learn at first but it will be worth it in the end.
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I hadn't really considered backing up my PC data to the web, but I went ahead and ordered an 8TB HDD—partly because my current one is so outdated.
 
@DD Tokki,

That sounds more like a storage controller or driver issue than ordinary HDD fragmentation, especially since it started immediately after upgrading to Windows 11.

Something worth checking is the Windows System Event Log for disk or controller warnings, particularly event IDs 129 and 153. Those indicate storage requests timing out or being retried. That might explain why even something as simple as saving a Notepad file takes 30 seconds. I'd also check the drive's SMART status. Ten years is getting pretty old for a mechanical drive, and failing sectors or even a bad SATA cable can produce similar symptoms.

My personal best guess is Windows 11 has introduced a driver or power management change that isn't playing nicely with the controller. Security scanning could contribute as well, but I wouldn't expect it to produce stalls that severe.

In any case, I can pretty much promise you a defrag won't fix it. In fact, it may make things worse. If the drive is beginning to fail, defragmentation is just putting a lot of additional stress on it.

As for your projects, as @danno said, you should absolutely put them on a GitHUB. It's difficult to understand at first, but you will get the time back and far, far more very quickly. It's both a versioning and incremental backup rolled into one.

DC
 
DCurrent said:
@DD Tokki,

That sounds more like a storage controller or driver issue than ordinary HDD fragmentation, especially since it started immediately after upgrading to Windows 11.

Something worth checking is the Windows System Event Log for disk or controller warnings, particularly event IDs 129 and 153. Those indicate storage requests timing out or being retried. That might explain why even something as simple as saving a Notepad file takes 30 seconds. I'd also check the drive's SMART status. Ten years is getting pretty old for a mechanical drive, and failing sectors or even a bad SATA cable can produce similar symptoms.

My personal best guess is Windows 11 has introduced a driver or power management change that isn't playing nicely with the controller. Security scanning could contribute as well, but I wouldn't expect it to produce stalls that severe.

In any case, I can pretty much promise you a defrag won't fix it. In fact, it may make things worse. If the drive is beginning to fail, defragmentation is just putting a lot of additional stress on it.

As for your projects, as @danno said, you should absolutely put them on a GitHUB. It's difficult to understand at first, but you will get the time back and far, far more very quickly. It's both a versioning and incremental backup rolled into one.

DC
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The actual operating speed on the SSD is normal, but this issue occurs when interacting with data stored on the HDD—such as moving, copying, or saving files. I was able to write this post because web browsing still works.
 
danno said:
The only advice I could give is the same @DCurrent gave me years ago, open a GitHub account and put all your projects on it, GitHub is a little difficult to learn at first but it will be worth it in the end.
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Is it something like a GitHub web drive? For now, I’m intentionally leaving the data inside alone because the disk is currently being defragmented. I think I’ll start working on it once the defragmentation is finished.
 
How I have my GitHub set up is a github app on my desktop, this app has access and knows the location of my projects on my HDD, every time I make a change to any of my projects I use the app to upload those changes to githubs online storage.

GitHub stores all the changes so if you make a mistake you can go back to a previous version of your project,

I would recommend having a HDD storage and GitHub online storage
 
DD Tokki said:
Is it something like a GitHub web drive? For now, I’m intentionally leaving the data inside alone because the disk is currently being defragmented. I think I’ll start working on it once the defragmentation is finished.
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Sort of, but it's not really a cloud drive, and GitHub won't even let you use it that way if you try. It's a project versioning system.

Let's say you make an update to Sailor Mars, like a new animation. When you're done with the changes, you make what's called a commit and push it to GitHub. That commit becomes a time capsule of your project at that point.

As you make more changes, you keep making commits and pushing them to GitHub. Over time, you build a complete history of your project, and you can go back to any previous version whenever you want. If you make a mistake or break something, you can see exactly what changed and even restore an earlier version. You can also create branches to experiment with new features without touching your main project. If the experiment works out, you merge those changes back into the main project. If it doesn't, you can just discard the branch.

So while GitHub does give you an online copy of your project, that's really just a side benefit. The big advantage is having a complete history of your development work, with the freedom to experiment without worrying about losing something that worked before.

It's especially useful for game development, where you might spend weeks working on a new feature only to decide you liked the old version better.

DC

*Edit:* :ninja: by @danno.
 
@DD Tokki

I suggest following the @DCurrent and @danno recomendations, plus I suggest checking the HDD health using a proper software like Crystal Disk Info or HD Sentinel. If the drive's health is around 50%, I strongly suggest moving all your data asap.

Some years ago I suddenly lost an old hard drive with similar symptoms, I always recommend making backups to external drives or cloud storage.
 
Kratus said:
@DD Tokki

I suggest following the @DCurrent and @danno recomendations, plus I suggest checking the HDD health using a proper software like Crystal Disk Info or HD Sentinel. If the drive's health is around 50%, I strongly suggest moving all your data asap.

Some years ago I suddenly lost an old hard drive with similar symptoms, I always recommend making backups to external drives or cloud storage.
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I checked with CrystalDiskInfo and found a problem with the hard drive. The replacement drive I ordered probably won't arrive for another five days—this is a real issue.
 
DD Tokki said:
I checked with CrystalDiskInfo and found a problem with the hard drive. The replacement drive I ordered probably won't arrive for another five days—this is a real issue.
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I suggest confirming the issue using the Hard Disk sentinel, this app shows the health in percentage.
Usually it takes some time before presenting a severe issue, I believe that you will be able to replace it with the new HDD in time.

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Kratus said:
I suggest confirming the issue using the Hard Disk sentinel, this app shows the health in percentage.
Usually it takes some time before presenting a severe issue, I believe that you will be able to replace it with the new HDD in time.

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The hard disk is in a very critical condition. The program you mentioned is also advising you to back up your data.
 
DD Tokki said:
The hard disk is in a very critical condition. The program you mentioned is also advising you to back up your data.
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Like I suspected, the HDD health is not good. Well, I suggest backuping the most urgent data to a cloud storage, and try to reduce the HDD usage at least while waiting for the new one.
 

Good news!
The new hard drive has arrived, and after a long wait, I was even able to recover project data I had thought was lost for good.
First up is *Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari* (River City Ransom).
While working on *Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun Re*, I generated new music for *Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari* using SUNO—and now, I’m finally able to implement it!
 
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This is a project that has now been successfully moved to a new hard drive.

As an aside, while the original title of *Sailor Moon* was *Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon* or *Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon* it seems it is now referred to as *Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon*. I think I might update the title whenever I write it in English, to align with the official usage.
 
DD Tokki said:

This time, I managed to restore *King of Rage*which took quite a while onto a new hard drive. Some files were corrupted and the directory structure was a mess, so I applied a temporary fix to get it running.
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Good news!! I'm looking forward to this kof project.
 
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