SSD required?

[abbo1993]

Seriously? The game won't run without it? WTF?

[Affronter]

Vanilla CPMMLXXVII (GOG purchase if yer wondering) was fine on a regular SATA SSD. However, Starfield was not. So I moved both to a second M.2 NVMe and will see if it makes any difference when Phantom Liberty releases. As for Starfield, it is night & day improvement on NVMe.

[harisenvin]

even consoles use SSDs why on earth are you even considering HDDs in 2023

[Dan_The_Noob]

highly recommend jus getting a cheap M2 SSD installed.
even the cheapest M2 drives will make a huge difference to how smoothly things load in.

[Quartz]

Who the hell gaming in 2023 and still using HDD instead of SSD?

[JungleJim99]

After the most recent patch (a few months ago???), I found CP2077 not running well from my HDD. I installed an M.2 2tb drive (about $160) and moved the game from the HDD to the M.2 - what a difference! No more stuttering, better framerate, much, much smoother. If you can afford an SSD, definitely get one.

[Hyperion]

Yes an SSD is required now. They are dirt cheap now even here in Australia (where we’re used to getting boned by high PC part prices). $49 AUD ($31.40 in USD) for a 500GB Samsung 970 EVO PLUS NVMe. For reference Phantom Liberty costs $45 AUD. Of course, I don’t know about the price situation in other countries but if you can afford the base game + Phantom Liberty, then generally speaking you can also afford an SSD.

That being said, no the game will not physically stop you from running it if you don’t have an SSD. You will, however, essentially be running the game at a handicap though so keep that in mind.

I’ve said this before but slapping an SSD into your system is by far the easiest, cheapest and most effective solution to speed up your PC and I’m not just talking about gaming; having an SSD will speed up virtually ALL use cases for your PC.

[baalthazaar]

I did my 2nd playthrough off of an HDD. Loading times were almost non-existent. I didn't think the experience was any different than playing from an NVME. I assume the game just does smart caching and I had 128GB of system memory at the time so the whole game was probably just sitting in RAM.

[UndeadWeekend]

i'm trying to wrap my head around having a pc that can meet all the other requirements of cyberpunk 2077 but not having an ssd.

[grimoire]

How can you afford a game if you can't afford an SSD?

[TNX.]

Who is gaming in 2023 without an SSD or NVME? Seriously. They're pretty cheap too, not like they're scarce to find.

[TheeOnlyBIRD]

it willl run on a hard drive it will just load slower

[Cenotaph]

It's like asking, do I need a CPU to run this game

[Skwerley]

Originally posted by Rei Johannes:

Originally posted by abbo1993:

Seriously? The game won't run without it? WTF?

Yeah, it sucks, bro. Devs dont bother to optimize game code to make it run better so they just increase system requirements. It's lot easier that way tho :P

Yeah they should make games that still run on DoS and Windows 95, I mean jeez how lazy can you be

[MrM07]

Originally posted by Namsum:

Switching between 65"/4k 120Hz or 27"/1440p 165 Hz

Got the same combo myself.

[Xype]

You will have all kinds of loading and texture headaches if you run on an HDD but it will likely play fine when you aren't loading things.

They write that as requirements so when you go crying that it has slow loading and glitchy textures in fast changing scenes, they can point out, well you don't meet minimum specs, glad you can at least play it.