SSD vs HDD Startup time

[V3ntilator]

Anyone compared load speed on startup to menu?

In game it loads very fast from HDD.

[SKurj]

define 'very fast'

relative to what?

[Mampf]

i have it on my HDD cause SSD is full, the first game start takes 10 minutes so i can go wc make coffe and smoke till the game is starting:-(

[Shavanna]

i have it on a m2.ssd, but even for me it needs at least 1 min till i can get into a queue.

[The Snail King]

Dude, SSD is always going to be faster

[Shavanna]

Originally posted by AlThePleb:

Dude, SSD is always going to be faster

it is, but its still rather slow compared to many other games.

[Rivers]

I tested on both since I am juggling between a couple games and Lost Ark takes longer to boot on HDD, but it is very fast once you get in-game.

SSD boots faster, around 1 minute and a half compared to 3/5 minutes on HDD and I didnt notice a huge decrease in load times compared to HDD after that, so I would say that if you are struggling with space, Lost Ark is more than fine in an HDD.

[V3ntilator]

Originally posted by SKurj:

define 'very fast'

relative to what?

It takes max 5 seconds to load any new area from HDD (Ironwolf).
Loading to menu takes about 1-2 minutes from HDD.

Some belov here said 1 minute to menu from SSD.
Normally SSD should have loaded 5 +/- times faster to menu, but the game isn't optimized for SSD.

[V3ntilator]

Originally posted by AlThePleb:

Dude, SSD is always going to be faster

Yes, but in most cases only 10% +/- faster as the games isn't optimized for fast loading.

Games like Forza Horizon 4 which is SSD optimized, loads like 7-10 times faster than a fast HDD.

I only have 3.TB of SSD on my PC. If a game loads slow from SSD, i just load it from HDD instead to save SSD space for games which utilize it.

[Deathman.Kenshi]

Game loads very fast even on old 5700 rpm drive I feel no need to put it on SSD

[Ippy]

Originally posted by V3ntilator:

Originally posted by SKurj:

define 'very fast'

relative to what?

It takes max 5 seconds to load any new area from HDD (Ironwolf).
Loading to menu takes about 1-2 minutes from HDD.

Some belov here said 1 minute to menu from SSD.
Normally SSD should have loaded 5 +/- times faster to menu, but the game isn't optimized for SSD.

"game is not optimized for SSD", what does that even mean?

[Cheeky little sausage]

My HDD boots the game up in 1 min and 5 seconds.

[Basarab Laiota]

Apparently it has more to do with whether the Storage Device you're using is external or internal. Internal storage drives run the game much better, from what I've seen.

[FsGoD]

Originally posted by V3ntilator:

Anyone compared load speed on startup to menu?

In game it loads very fast from HDD.

I run only SSDs.

Initial boot takes a minute, but after that its less than 2 seconds load time between areas.

[Fallen]

it takes a good 15 seconds to start the game from my nvme. i was quite shocked, thought the game broke

[Cinus]

SSD here its super long...Anticheat lmao