does nvme drive makes a difference?

[Rock&StoneTorture]

I'm playing it on a SATA drive. I'll transfer to my nvme drive if it makes a difference.

[Seekrt]

I play out of a sata drive myself, (keep half a Tb on my nvme just in case) and had no problem with this game so far.

[AllergicToBrainRot]

m2 have slightly faster speeds.

[valium]

The difference in performance between SSD and NVME are minor, but HDD and SSD are massive.

[Zoid13]

over a HDD yes big difference.
over a SSD no. they are virtually identical in terms of gaming.

[Titan Awaken]

I’ve always put it this way:

If the jump from HDD to SATA SSD is like moving from a horse drawn carriage to a modern car, the jump from a SATA SSD to an NVMe is SSD is like a jump from a modern car to a slightly faster modern car.

In essence, NVMe are only slightly faster than a SATA SSD for the purpose of gaming specifically (other workloads are different of course).

[LeftPaw]

Yes, I found them to make a massive difference. Of course you notice it more with games like Starfield and games that are fond of loading stuff in.

[cyäegha]

"yes"

in practical terms you won't see much more than maybe a second's worth of improvement moving between an M.2 SATA and M.2 NVME drive unless you're dealing with extremely large individual files, like uncompressed cabinets or .RAW camera files

in other words, unless we're talking MW19-tier unoptimized, just stick to the SATA SSD
you'll just burn up space on your OS drive for no real benefit

[Ted]

No it wont make any difference other than maybe a couple of seconds when you initially load the game up. But this game is actually pretty good as far as loading times go so the difference would be unnoticeable unless you are sitting there with a timer

[medion_no]

I noticed improvement in stutters and texture loading in certain games after moving from ssd to nvme. Nothing really big tho.

[Bogmore]

There are videos of comparative loading times for NVMe, SSD and HDD on youtube. SSD is about 10-15% slower than NVMe and HDD is about 200-250% slower that SSD.

NVMe is just an interface as they are SSD drives but usually are connected straight into the busses rather than through a SATA interface, of which there are two types, one faster than the other., So just changing your SSD to a different SATA connection may speed it up, they usually have different colours on the motherboard.