SSD or HDD to prevent stutter

[JabroniCorleone]

Hi@all
Normally I would say: Install the game to ssd it runs better because its faster.... BUT I was wondering if maybe the stutter is better if you play on normall hdd.... maybe its the problem? Can somebody test it because I already refunded and cant test anymore. Or if somebody plays it from hdd please tell us your experience.

[Tony72495]

I unfortunately don't have an HDD to test, but that wouldn't actually be unprecedented. Sunset Overdrive is well known for stuttering on SSD's.

[Blackwood8812]

A ssd is always better than a hdd.

[Warnstaff]

I have 2 SSDs and big HDD, but my HDD was the only one that had room for this game. It runs fine for me on it. I haven't tried my SSD yet, though I have no reason to at this point.

[Dans_Tip]

Originally posted by JabroniCorleone:

Hi@all
Normally I would say: Install the game to ssd it runs better because its faster.... BUT I was wondering if maybe the stutter is better if you play on normall hdd.... maybe its the problem? Can somebody test it because I already refunded and cant test anymore. Or if somebody plays it from hdd please tell us your experience.

Your wrong

[Kaldaien]

Originally posted by Tony72495:

I unfortunately don't have an HDD to test, but that wouldn't actually be unprecedented. Sunset Overdrive is well known for stuttering on SSD's.

Tons of games stutter if you give them SSDs, they load resources too quickly and then have to deal with the problems that causes.

This isn't one of them though, stutter's not going away no matter what you do to I/O speed because of shader cache problems.

[JabroniCorleone]

So I had stutter on SSD.... You mean it makes no difference if I try it on HDD?

[Blackwood8812]

Originally posted by JabroniCorleone:

So I had stutter on SSD.... You mean it makes no difference if I try it on HDD?

No and hdd‘s are garbage.

[JabroniCorleone]

Just curios: Does anybody play on normal HDD and has the stutter too?

[Blackwood8812]

Originally posted by JabroniCorleone:

Just curios: Does anybody play on normal HDD and has the stutter too?

Once again: it‘s the same or worse but not better for sure.

[JabroniCorleone]

Ok thank you my friend :-)

[Blackwood8812]

Np ^^

[☁アンナとルカス☁]

i have the Game on a NVMe M.2 SSD its still stutters so it makes not a huge difference . load times are longer but the stutters are the same if you enter new areas that needs to be loaded it might stutters more .

[Gweenie]

Your hard drive/ssd isn't whats behind the stutters, its the cpu and game optimisation, it stutters because the game throws all the weight onto a single core and in turns overloads it hence the stutters, basically you need a core where one core has a ton of power

[Natasha]

Don't listen to Blackwood, he has no clue what he's talking about, faster is not always better, hard drives have many advantages such as lasting longer, being easier to recover data from when damaged and cheaper too.

Also SSD's are vastly more expencive than hdd's still because of the demand, a cheap HDD will run any game as well as a ssd, performance wise there is no difference, trust me i've tested pretty much the most popular games on both drives, they run exactly the same in performance, only loading times are improved and often not as much as you would think, it greatly varies.

It's a common misconception that hdd stutters, they don't, some online games tend to not work well with hdd's, not because of the drive but because of their inability to optimize their games.

Path of Exile, i mean i don't have to say more here do i ? the developers mindlessly add new content without optimizing it because of their crappy reset gaming, can't blame the hdd for bad developers.

There's a few others i can't remember the names off, basically it's never the drive's fault.

[thedescendant]

I tried both myself and the same stutter persisted for me