Worth SSD On Mass Effect Trilogy?

[pjedilord]

Do people think be worth using SSD? due to the old game dont see how use much?

[RyonDK]

SSD is always better, with any game.

[pjedilord]

They improve loading on the games, dont think will use much

[Arkham99]

I've installed the same games on both my SSD & HDD and honestly can't tell any difference with the loading times, or any other increased performance for that matter... in fact, I got periodic BSoDs when gaming off of the SSD... I now use the SSD exclusively for the Memory Hog known as 'Windows 10' while gaming off of the HDD... if my games load any slower I haven't noticed, but the annoying BSoDs (different error messages everytime) that used to interupt my MP matches often have stopped... the 250GB SSD is three quarters empty but 'Windows 10' has plenty of wiggle room to do its thing now...:-)

[Dopey Shepard]

Originally posted by Arkham99:

I've installed the same games on both my SSD & HDD and honestly can't tell any difference with the loading times, or any other increased performance for that matter... in fact, I got periodic BSoDs when gaming off of the SSD... I now use the SSD exclusively for the Memory Hog known as 'Windows 10' while gaming off of the HDD... if my games load any slower I haven't noticed, but the annoying BSoDs (different error messages everytime) that used to interupt my MP matches often have stopped... the 250GB SSD is three quarters empty but 'Windows 10' has plenty of wiggle room to do its thing now...:-)

you can't tell the difference between a standard ssd and a standard hdd? Then there must be smth wrong with your ssd. My loading times are much better for everything on my kingston a400 480gb now that I reinstalled windows on it. Hell, I think it even makes games on my hdd load faster somehow

[Arkham99]

Originally posted by Dopey Shepard:

you can't tell the difference between a standard ssd and a standard hdd? Then there must be smth wrong with your ssd

they both load pretty fast for me... and, as I said... there were problems when installing games to the SSD... it's my opinion that they're overrated... either that, or people are impatient when waiting a few extra microseconds for their games to load...:-)

[pjedilord]

Heh

[Nite69]

For this game series no its too old, SSD is only recommended for open worlds with very high res textures

[Rubyeyed]

From what I remember loading times weren't long so it should do fine on a HDD. To be honest most of the levels aren't that big and the big ones are mostly empty space so not much to load to really make you wait.

[WESTG4M3R4L1F3]

Originally posted by pjedilord:

Do people think be worth using SSD? due to the old game dont see how use much?

just buy a 4TB NVME you will be good .

[Wilfer88]

Well nearly every single test out there will show that on average you half your load-times with an SSD over an HDD. Think 40 sec load for an HDD and 20 sec for an SSD and you get the picture. Really great load times on a SSD could be as fast as 12-13 sec on some games. And very many games can take over 1 min to load on HDD.
It rarely effects your fps.
Its easy to say "hey, I can wait", but when you get to experience faster load-times, its really really hard to go back. Same with good HDR, higher screen-resolution, a higher fps. When you know what good stuff is.

My experience with ME1 was that it was poorly optimiced on PC. Great improvements are done there. But ME3 on launch day was working really well for me, load-times, textures, all the content, so I dont think much can change there for me.

[varase]

Originally posted by Rubyeyed:

From what I remember loading times weren't long so it should do fine on a HDD. To be honest most of the levels aren't that big and the big ones are mostly empty space so not much to load to really make you wait.

Well, we are talking 4K assets here.

[hunt45]

if loading is an issue for you in the trilogy just go and download the 60fps mods this will speed up the loading screens since they are locked at 30fps

[ostar]

As already mentioned, 4k assets, gonna take a while to load. Even with a brand new mobo, hdd, etc.

Maybe it'd be alright with a 10k or 15k rpm spinner, but the guy debating whether to use ssd or hdd probably doesn't have one of those.

Originally posted by Arkham99:

in fact, I got periodic BSoDs when gaming off of the SSD...

Yeaaah, that can't be good.

[JinxTheWorld]

Here's the thing with SSD's and more importantly gen4 NVME M.2 like what i have. It's also a rant.

TL;DR: Answer is obviously yes. Why are you even asking this bloody question. Hell, why would you even still be running games on an HDD? SSD's are stupid cheap anymore so there isn't an excuse. Go on amazon and buy a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SSD or even better... an NVME M.2

I have a WD SN850. Its a gen4 M.2 with a 7000/5300 read/write. I will experience near non-existent load times that no HDD can hope to compare to. With a HDD you have something called texture pop in because the data transfer rate cannot keep up with some high rez textures due to having around a 100-200mb transfer rate usually. Your baseline trash SSD has around 300-600 read speeds. An NVME STARTS at 2000+, so it's usually higher than that.

Now the reason i can enjoy high M.2 transfer speeds is due to having a 3600mhz RAM (running XMP 2.0) and a ryzen 5600x. This is low end stuff btw. If you don't have RAM running at least that fast in XMP 2.0, an M.2 will be limited with load times since the CPU is waiting on the RAM. Why does this matter? Not much just pointing out the obvious...

SSD is always going to be better than any HDD simply due to how they function. RAM is extremely important due to THAT is what is transferring data from the drive to the CPU and GPU. Which is also capped at 2133mhz by the motherboard unless your run the RAM with XMP 2.0 enabled. SSD's can be accessed by the RAM instantly anywhere on the drive.

Also, if you aren't noticing significantly better load times with an SSD. You are being bottlenecked severely somewhere in your system. Probably your CPU. Actually screw any regular SSD, you should be running an NVME M.2 these days. If you cannot use one, throw your PC in the trash and build a new one. Sorry, not sorry. No excuse. NVME M.2 SSD's are also cheap nowadays. Even the cheapest is 5x better than a normal SSD.

This was my rant. OP asked a question that shouldn't of even been asked. It is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ obvious what the bloody answer is. You should already have one anyways. If anyone has an HD, throw it out. Time to upgrade. Don't be like that weirdo still using a flip phone like its 2003. Like the weirdo's still on win7 and vista. Even worse are those using IE to browse the web. Just stop.

I expect some salt.

[Wilfer88]

Rant, better stuff is better. Yeah.
Issue is often costs. If everyone could upgrade to better things, they would. First thing is just one component you want to upgrade, then it ends up needing to upgrade the whole computer.
There are like no games, I could actually say zero games, that are programmed to use the expensive NVME. Some day there will, but I have seen like 5 test that shows zero use of expensive vs cheap SSD in games. Its like 20 sec load vs a 22 sec load, that the 10% difference you can not feel when playing.

Upgrade from HDD to SSD does matter. But games just do not have a single clue how to use very fast SSD. You can pay 300% extra to get 2% better performance. But, dont do that.