GZDoom taking forever to load! HELP!

[Sacto17pete]

Which windows version? It's not fragmentation, a fragmented hard drive cannot cause a five minutes delay. Windows XP never defragmented automatically, on windows 7 SP1 there was a bug and the task was not executed. Also if there's a power failure in the middle of a maintenance operation you can lose all the data on your hard drive at least on Windows 7. Sure, there are data recovery tools.
You should check your drive smart parameters with smartmontools first, if your disk is failing you'll probably kill it trying to defragment. But this looks like a malware or antivirus problem.

I'm using Windows 10. Thankfully, I haven't had any power failure, at least that I'm aware of. Strangely enough, GZdoom is loading WADS normally (quickly) again. But I am having problems with my AMD Settings (Radon) as it won't load. I click on the program and it is unresponsive. I did recently uninstall and re-install the driver from the AMD website. However, as I have stated before, I don't know what the hell I'm doing. haha

[drfrag]

Check your smart parameters first and then install malwarebytes antimalware.

[Sacto17pete]

ok

[Sacto17pete]

Check your smart parameters first and then install malwarebytes antimalware.

I will look into this when I get home.. Hopefully google will explain all

[Rachael]

Between Smartmontools and CrystalDiskInfo, I like CrystalDiskInfo better, it has a lot easier interface, the reason I didn't recommend it first was because I was a bit confused by the license. But the "Standard Version" is freeware and Open Source with an MIT (very open) license, so that's good in my eyes. There's also no nagware to upgrade to the other versions.

[wildweasel]

As far as programs that can cause long delays: it could also be entirely possible that it's an overprotective virus scanner's On Access Scan. When I used to have Avast installed, running any install program larger than 300 MB would sometimes take long enough to access (and scan) that it'd halt the system. I don't think that this specific thing is what's causing your delays, but I can't help but wonder what'd happen if you disabled the shields briefly when you launch the game.

[Sacto17pete]

As far as programs that can cause long delays: it could also be entirely possible that it's an overprotective virus scanner's On Access Scan. When I used to have Avast installed, running any install program larger than 300 MB would sometimes take long enough to access (and scan) that it'd halt the system. I don't think that this specific thing is what's causing your delays, but I can't help but wonder what'd happen if you disabled the shields briefly when you launch the game.

It seems to be working fine now, not sure what happened. Now, I'm just trying to figure out why I can't open my AMD/Radon Settings for my graphics card. I click on the program and it is unresponsive.

[R4L]

For a defrag I'd also recommend Ultra Defrag. It does its thing on boot up so it's fairly quick.