When Hard Drive Fragmentation Strikes, is Diskeeper the Answer?
By Theo Cevallos April 20, 2007 Conclusion Even if it stumbled in our sole synthetic benchmark test, Diskeeper excelled with every real-world application we threw at it. It is clearly better than the Windows built-in defragmenter. Using the application, not only does Windows load faster, but every application takes less time to open. Even though games’ initial loading times didn t change after defragmentation, we did notice a difference in (difficult-to-measure) in-game performance. For example, in texture-intense games (Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion comes to mind), as you advance through a map or dungeon, new objects and textures need to be loaded periodically from the hard drive to the main memory. You can tell when this happens, as the game will probably freeze for a few seconds. After defragmenting the hard drive, these in-game loading times decreased significantly, to the point that sometimes, we didn t even notice them. In general, the entire game experience is now smoother. Add aut
