HDD Mode gone!?

[Schlingel]

Hello fellow chumbs,

Today while playing I noticed hard pop ins while driving, which totally ruin the imersion for me.

Went to the settings and noticed HDD Mode is gone? I simply can not find it anywhere anymore. Am I just blind or was it taken out?

Cheers!

[Nar!]

It's been relocated to the "Utilities" tab, choom.

[★REM★]

I'm surprised HDD are still used in 2025

[wesnef]

I'm surprised they kept that setting, when the 2.0 system reqs were updated to "SSD required."

Originally posted by ★REM★:

I'm surprised HDD are still used in 2025

Well, it *is* only 2024.
(but yeah, HDD are still used for lots of things. Just because SSDs are cheaper now, doesn't make them the only thing. Especially if you need larger storage options. The best selling internal HDDs on Newegg are 8-16TB. They go up to 24TB.)

[Afanickton]

Originally posted by ★REM★:

I'm surprised HDD are still used in 2025

HDD's are still good for actual storage and long term storage.

[Tazor]

Originally posted by ★REM★:

I'm surprised HDD are still used in 2025

I mean... yes? Why not? They are great for storage. For playing older games which don't benefit from SSDs in the first place. For watching video media as well.

SSDs are currently fairly niche in their uses. They are faster but more expensive.

[Vajtekk]

Originally posted by ★REM★:

I'm surprised HDD are still used in 2025

I use HDD for many singleplayer games, which doesn't require super ultra fast loading speed. I have 3.5TB HDD, and it's great for these games. Maybe CP2077 wouldn't work that well, as i played it on SSD

[FFox]

Here is a tip, get yourself a DiskCache Enabler from Nexus, this will likely help if you're on a HDD, of course enable HDD mode in your game's settings but try it out, it is an .asi file which goes in plugins folder, highly recommended to install CET (cyber engine tweaks) just look for Disk Cache Enabler you'll find like 4 of them, I personally use the one from Starfield but it is the same as the one for HFW or AFOP. All you want is the .asi file to drop in plugins folder.

[Schlingel]

Originally posted by ★REM★:

I'm surprised HDD are still used in 2025

Im not using a HDD I was looking for it, to turn it off.

[★REM★]

I get for storage, but for gaming they a bit on the bad side, considering all the games now days require fast read/write .
I can be wrong ofc, it's just i thought for gaming they really not anymore used.

Originally posted by Schlingel:

Originally posted by ★REM★:

I'm surprised HDD are still used in 2025

Im not using a HDD I was looking for it, to turn it off.

This make sense, but i think by default, it should be already turned off.

[Zebedee]

Originally posted by wesnef:

I'm surprised they kept that setting, when the 2.0 system reqs were updated to "SSD required."

Obvs wasn't removed but essentially they said beforehand 'not our problem if you use a HDD' for 2.0 and Phantom Liberty etc.

[NNNMAN ⁧⁧🔊*🎮🏆⏫]

I used a HDD for the Last Years Since I Played games (So more than a Century) sure the Loading takes 3 Times or more and Games all around Load Slower making your PC bottleneck more so High End PCs need Every Part to be In Line one HDD will make it Lower END.

But For Me Now SSD are the only choice not matter the higher cost what is 100$-200$ ??

It makes your game time great because you spend less time waiting unless you want that so you make more Pauses.

In Short Play with HDD or SSD most games older ones do not see much difference with HDD (Even Newer HDDs).

[NNNMAN ⁧⁧🔊*🎮🏆⏫]

Also many HDDs are used as STORAGE so theres that.

[Cenotaph]

Originally posted by Vajtekk:

Originally posted by ★REM★:

I'm surprised HDD are still used in 2025

I use HDD for many singleplayer games, which doesn't require super ultra fast loading speed. I have 3.5TB HDD, and it's great for these games. Maybe CP2077 wouldn't work that well, as i played it on SSD

It's ♥♥♥♥♥ regardless, these days it's common for ssd's to go upwards ot 7-8 Gbytes of large file transfer per second and you're sitting in a few 100 if that.
It is just really slow

[wesnef]

Built my current system in 2020, it's got a 1TB SATA SSD (used for boot & the games that need it) and a 2TB HDD for old/slow games and data storage (mod folders, screenshots, etc).

My mobo only has one M.2 slot, and it's in a poor location (directly behind the GPU, no heatsink or space for one.)