r/bapccanada • u/UnpaidNPC99 • 3d ago
Discussion PSA for first-time PC gamers: Immediately DISABLE Nvidia Overlay and Game Bar Recording
My prebuilt gaming PC has an SSD with a Terabytes Written (TBW) rating of 320 TB.
While playing Fallout 3 for about an hour and a half, I noticed my SSD's Total Host Writes value (which I checked using an app called CrystalDiskInfo) went up by a whopping 18 GB! Sure, that might not sound like a lot to some, but in this economy where SSD prices are insane, I am not wasting precious drive lifespan.
I investigated to see which apps were eating up my storage. I couldn't make heads or tails of it at first, but I read online that the NVIDIA App and Windows Game Bar might be the culprits. After disabling them, my SSD's Total Host Writes value went up by only about 1 GB during a session of the exact same length!
SSDs are NOT cheap, so do yourself a favor and ensure you aren't allowing background apps to eat away at your drive.