Any viable way to play with HDD ?

[Tafuu]

I guess we all noticed now thats in unplayable and laggy af with a HDD but does anyone maybe a fix or an idea what could be done, cauze holy star citizen runs smoothly with a HDD i dont know why starfield cant get over it.

Edit: Thanks to steam i could refund it (2.3hrs), i'm sad about it, i was/am really hyped for the game, and what i could play looked and felt good, hope bethesda will optimize their game so that it runs on HDD aswell.

[cocomonkilla]

yea

buy a solid state
copy files to it

[Zaigan]

Not sure what's doing it but to be fair to starfield they do have it in their system specs that a SSD is required. Thankfully they aren't more than $70 for a 1TB drive at Best Buy where I'm at.

Hopefully as time goes and they get more reports they eventually get around to being able to smooth out some of the problems on HDD.

[Bandy]

OMG, SSDs are so cheap now, just get into the century... (｡>﹏<｡)

[Inquerion]

Originally posted by Tafuu:

I guess we all noticed now thats in unplayable and laggy af with a HDD but does anyone maybe a fix or an idea what could be done, cauze holy star citizen runs smoothly with a HDD i dont know why starfield cant get over it.

Best solution: buy SSD. Really. This game is poorly optimized and has lot's of loading screens. Even cheap SATA SSD like Crucial MX500 or 870EVO will be ok if you can't put NVME into your old rig.

Other solutions:
1. Try moving the game to the C (first partition) partition (TLDR:. on HDD games runs slightly quicker on first partition; long story, you can read about it on the internet).
2. Make sure that you have at least 25% of free space on that partition (even better; 50%).
3. Defrag the drive with UltraDefrag or default Windows defrag tool. It may took a few hours (max), depending how fragmented your drive is.

[Maxpeinas]

I've seen people reporting that they are playing on HDD without any issues. No idea if they are serious or just trolls.

[Kboss]

Originally posted by Tafuu:

I guess we all noticed now thats in unplayable and laggy af with a HDD but does anyone maybe a fix or an idea what could be done, cauze holy star citizen runs smoothly with a HDD i dont know why starfield cant get over it.

Okay grandpa lets go to the bed

[Inquerion]

Originally posted by Kboss:

Originally posted by Tafuu:

I guess we all noticed now thats in unplayable and laggy af with a HDD but does anyone maybe a fix or an idea what could be done, cauze holy star citizen runs smoothly with a HDD i dont know why starfield cant get over it.

Okay grandpa lets go to the bed

HDDs are still good for 90%+ games, kiddo. Source: your grandpa.

Only newest poorly optimized games work so bad on HDDs, because why optimize it when your consumers can keep buying new SSDs...

[Tafuu]

Originally posted by Inquerion:

Originally posted by Tafuu:

I guess we all noticed now thats in unplayable and laggy af with a HDD but does anyone maybe a fix or an idea what could be done, cauze holy star citizen runs smoothly with a HDD i dont know why starfield cant get over it.

Best solution: buy SSD. Really. This game is poorly optimized and has lot's of loading screens. Even cheap SATA SSD like Crucial MX500 or 870EVO will be ok if you can't put NVME into your old rig.

Other solutions:
1. Try moving the game to the C (first partition) partition (TLDR:. on HDD games runs slightly quicker on first partition).
2. Make sure that you have at least 25% of free space on that partition free (even better; 50%).
3. Defrag the drive with UltraDefrag or default Windows defrag tool. It may took a few hours max depending how fragmented your drive is.

NVME shouldnt be a problem, can u recommend any good not to expensive SSD ? the PC was expensive enough thats why i choose HDD when i build it

[MechaDeka]

Originally posted by Tafuu:

I guess we all noticed now thats in unplayable and laggy af with a HDD but does anyone maybe a fix or an idea what could be done, cauze holy star citizen runs smoothly with a HDD i dont know why starfield cant get over it.

Because every developer that isn't Bethesda has known how to properly pre-cache maps and other content for like the past 20 years. Starfield needing an SSD is essentially a band-aid solution.

[Inquerion]

Originally posted by Maxpeinas:

I've seen people reporting that they are playing on HDD without any issues. No idea if they are serious or just trolls.

Except for a lot longer loading screens, small FPS drops and sometimes ugly "90s" placeholder textures loading before normal HD textures, it should be playable.

It depends how tolerant and patient you are regarding this stuff.

And of course, players with more expensive 7200 RPM HDDs will have better experience (and less annoying loading screens) than users with laptop 5400 RPM HDDs.

[Tafuu]

Originally posted by Inquerion:

Originally posted by Maxpeinas:

I've seen people reporting that they are playing on HDD without any issues. No idea if they are serious or just trolls.

Except for a lot longer loading screens, small FPS drops and sometimes ugly "90s" placeholder textures loading before normal HD textures, it should be playable.

It depends how tolerant and patient you are regarding this stuff.

And of course, players with more expensive 7200 RPM HDDs will have better experience (and less annoying loading screens) than users with laptop 5400 RPM HDDs.

if it it only would be that, that would be a dream, but damn, game is freezing, sound is inconsistent, dialog is not sync.

[Inquerion]

Originally posted by Tafuu:

Originally posted by Inquerion:

Best solution: buy SSD. Really. This game is poorly optimized and has lot's of loading screens. Even cheap SATA SSD like Crucial MX500 or 870EVO will be ok if you can't put NVME into your old rig.

Other solutions:
1. Try moving the game to the C (first partition) partition (TLDR:. on HDD games runs slightly quicker on first partition).
2. Make sure that you have at least 25% of free space on that partition free (even better; 50%).
3. Defrag the drive with UltraDefrag or default Windows defrag tool. It may took a few hours max depending how fragmented your drive is.

NVME shouldnt be a problem, can u recommend any good not to expensive SSD ? the PC was expensive enough thats why i choose HDD when i build it

I'm sorry I'm also new to SSDs.

Bought my first SATA SSD (Samsung 870 EVO) recently and I'm happy with it.
I heard that Samsung and Crucial SSDs are good.
Avoid cheapest ones like Patriot Burst, they have very poor controllers.

And remember that SSDs can suddenly die and you will lose ALL data on them (HDDs data can de saved in most cases) so always do regular backups to HDDs or Cloud if you have imporant data on them.

HDDs are also better as a long term storage; they can hold data for years.

SSDs are great for gaming and work though.

[Tachyon]

Only really badly optimised games need an SSD. Game devs just want gamers to buy SSDs so that they don't have to fix anything themselves.

[kdodds]

Not currently. Even people with killer systems are reporting performance issues when installing on HDD. Hence, SSD REQUIRED.

[Tafuu]

Originally posted by kdodds:

Not currently. Even people with killer systems are reporting performance issues when installing on HDD. Hence, SSD REQUIRED.

yes i can tell the same
GPU.: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core 32GB Ram

but on a HDD it runs like ♥♥♥♥, and pls dont ask me why i have HDD with such a setup, the short answer is there was never a reason for an SSd