Defragmenting game files

As already stated, as Steam doesn't use that GCF format anymore, I seriously doubt you'll get much more optimization, or at least without it affecting performance. Per page: 15 30 Date Posted: 26 Aug, pm. Posts: 5. Start a New Discussion. Discussions Rules and Guidelines.

Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic harassment, fighting, or rude posts. All rights reserved. Windows often slows down after a year or two due to uninstalled software leaving things behind. Also, consider cleaning up your machine with CCleaner.

If your computer is slow even on the desktop then there's the possibility that your computer is infected with malware computer virus, trojan, worm, ransomware, etc. Depending on infection severity you might not even be able to recover files.

Some malware is so nefarious that it can even copy itself to the firmware of your motherboard or hard drive and survive formats! Since Anti-Virus software is reactionary, sometimes it can't even detect the malware.

So if your computer is really slow or application windows appear on their own then your computer is infected. You'll need to zero your drive zero is different than formatting, zero destroys all data while formatting just empties out a partition.

If you don't know how to do this, take the computer to your local computer repair store and ask them to zero your hard drive and reinstall Windows. Make sure you specifically say "zero my hard drive". If you tried all these things and your game is still performing worse, then your next course of action is to upgrade your computer to increase your game performance.

If you want to run your game server as a Windows service you can do so with FireDaemon Pro and manage those services via your browser or phone with FireDaemon Fusion. Did you find it helpful? Yes No. How can we help you today? Access to the directory is denied if that is done. Do not attempt to move allocated clusters in an NTFS file system that extend beyond the cluster rounded file size, because the result is an error. When defragmenting NTFS file system volumes, defragmenting a virtual cluster beyond the allocation size of a file is allowed.

When possible, move data in blocks aligned relative to each other in kilobyte KB increments. This reduces copy-on-write overhead when shadow copies are enabled, because shadow copy space is increased and performance is reduced when the following conditions occur:.

The move delta is the number of bytes between the start of the source block and the start of the target block. In other words, a block starting at offset X on-disk can be moved to a starting offset Y if the absolute value of X minus Y is an even multiple of 16 KB. So, assuming 4-KB clusters, a move from cluster 3 to cluster 27 will be optimized, but a move from cluster 18 to cluster 24 will not.

Mod 4 is chosen because four clusters at 4 KB each is equivalent to 16 KB. Therefore, a volume formatted to a KB cluster size will result in all move files being optimized. For more information about shadow copies, see Volume Shadow Copy Service. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode.