I've had a peculiar experience that is rather confusing, so if anyone can make heads or tails of it, I'd appreciate it.
For a while, I thought I had a major problem with the Bot macro. I run 3 casters and a tank, and I could not start the three caster macros at the same time. The PC would freeze for at least 10 if not 15 minutes. Solid. I could walk away and eat. I didn't bother asking Pete. I pester him enough. The workaround was start one, wait for it to finish, then the next, etc.
Now, EQ and the MMObugs folders are both on the C drive, an SSD, specifically for speed. They were not on the D drive. My D drive was a Seagate.
Two weeks ago I had a catastrophic disk failure with the D drive. In hindsight, the warnings were there but I missed them. It took longer to spin up from idle, it took much longer to load stuff, etc. Eventually it wouldn't load or copy anything.
Anyway, I read many of the stories on the web about how 3TB Seagate drives were time bombs and had a ridiculous failure rate. Mine was a 2TB Seagate. I saw HGST has the best record, so I bought one of them as a replacement.
(Here's the part that really counts)
Since installing the HGST drive, there is no hesitation with starting Bot.mac. I can start it on all 3 accounts at the same time and it is running on all three within a minute. There is no hang.
Now, this baffles me. As I said, the EQ folder and Bugs are on the SSD, not the HDD. And starting up Bot should be a memory and CPU thing or the source drive. Certainly not the D drive that holds nothing related to the game.
So can anyone figure out why a bad hard drive would bring a Bot load to a total halt?
For a while, I thought I had a major problem with the Bot macro. I run 3 casters and a tank, and I could not start the three caster macros at the same time. The PC would freeze for at least 10 if not 15 minutes. Solid. I could walk away and eat. I didn't bother asking Pete. I pester him enough. The workaround was start one, wait for it to finish, then the next, etc.
Now, EQ and the MMObugs folders are both on the C drive, an SSD, specifically for speed. They were not on the D drive. My D drive was a Seagate.
Two weeks ago I had a catastrophic disk failure with the D drive. In hindsight, the warnings were there but I missed them. It took longer to spin up from idle, it took much longer to load stuff, etc. Eventually it wouldn't load or copy anything.
Anyway, I read many of the stories on the web about how 3TB Seagate drives were time bombs and had a ridiculous failure rate. Mine was a 2TB Seagate. I saw HGST has the best record, so I bought one of them as a replacement.
(Here's the part that really counts)
Since installing the HGST drive, there is no hesitation with starting Bot.mac. I can start it on all 3 accounts at the same time and it is running on all three within a minute. There is no hang.
Now, this baffles me. As I said, the EQ folder and Bugs are on the SSD, not the HDD. And starting up Bot should be a memory and CPU thing or the source drive. Certainly not the D drive that holds nothing related to the game.
So can anyone figure out why a bad hard drive would bring a Bot load to a total halt?