Hello. I bought DayZ recently and I enjoy it. I play at Medium settings at 100+ FPS and I'm quite comfortable with that... until the moment my PC begins to stutter and the FPS drops to 0 and stays so for several (up to maybe 15) seconds. The reason for it is that some processes such as System and Antimalware Service Executable begin to overload my SSD to 100% for no reason. When it happens, my SSD becomes the only part of my PC to be stuck at 100% load.
I had never had such a problem before, no any other game ever did cause such issues, even though their system requirements were higher. The 100% SSD load rise happens only when I play DayZ. This issue is very crucial to me because I might find out I've just been killed after the lag is over...
The most peculiar thing is that my game is not installed on the SSD (where my Windows 10 is), it's on a separate HDD.
Please help me solve the problem. I have tried disabling some Windows services (found this advice on the Internet) but this didn't work.
My specs:
CPU: Intel Pentium G4560 3.5 GHz
RAM: 8 GB 2133 MHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050Ti
HDD: WDC WD10EZEX-75WN4A0 (1 TB, 7200) — the game is here
SSD: SanDisk SDSSDA120G