Can a slow SSD kill this game's performance?

[SolidSonicMania]

On my gaming laptop I have the game installed on a WD Green SN350 SSD (which is like their bottom-rung SSD model) and if I try to play it the game is heavily prone to slowing down severely. Is this to be expected or is there something else working against me here?

I will say I've had issues with this SSD randomly umounting from my PC in the past (sometimes even in the middle of a game). I swapped the slot with the other SSD slot that has the boot drive on it and it's happened significantly less since then but it still happens periodically so I do wonder if my specific SSD might be having issues.

[SEATEK The_LEFTY]

I would buy another one. It's a win-win either way.

[Buster]

SSD's that lack a dram cache can frankly be worse then a hard drive they may load faster but they can cause stutters like crazy. Most SSD manufactures don't tell you if they have one or not. You need to look for the ram chip on a NVME, or dig up the tech spec sheets if its a sata if they don't list it. A big give away that it doesn't have a dram cache is if the main marketing points are abouit SLC caching when buying one.

All good SSD's have a 512mb-1gb dram cache even hard drives have a 128-256mb one.

[Iridius]

this game didn't work properly on my hard drive
ssd is super necessary

[Serious]

It's unlikely the ssd quality could decrease the peformance of this game.
The loading time could be much longer, but the performance during the acutal gameplay is for games like this almost unrelated to your drive and just depending on your cpu, gpu and memory.
During the game you should check your systemtemps e.g. with hwmonitor,
It's more likely your system gets hot as that your ssd could be a bottleneck.
But if you want to check your ssd you can do this e.g. by using crystaldiskmark and compare the results to the datasheet of your ssd

[SolidSonicMania]

Originally posted by Iridius:

this game didn't work properly on my hard drive
ssd is super necessary

On both of my gaming desktops the game is installed to an HDD and aside from some longer load times (mostly on startup) the game runs fine.

[Iridius]

Originally posted by SolidSonicMania:

Originally posted by Iridius:

this game didn't work properly on my hard drive
ssd is super necessary

On both of my gaming desktops the game is installed to an HDD and aside from some longer load times (mostly on startup) the game runs fine.

good for you
caused my game to not even start up after they patched it

[Serious]

Originally posted by Iridius:

Originally posted by SolidSonicMania:

On both of my gaming desktops the game is installed to an HDD and aside from some longer load times (mostly on startup) the game runs fine.

good for you
caused my game to not even start up after they patched it

It's unlikely a hdd problem but a config patch problem.
The best you can do if a game or actually any software is´n't working after an patch is to delete your configs.
These configs are in most cases not saved on your gaming hdd but on the system ssd
(like this: C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\TEKKEN 8)
That's also why it worked when you changed your install drive, as the configs need to be written again to point to this new drive.
That's also the reason why a simple uninstall often didn't fix any issue. These config files are not installed with the game but created from the game at first start so they won't be deleted if you uninstall the game.

[天佑中共🐥the light]

I use external ntfs hdd and despite slow initial loads it works greatly

[Σnvy]

I play on HDD wtf are you talking about?
About game load, is way faster when you play with a PC player, if you play with a console one it takes more time to load. But the load times is way lower than Tekken 7 and Street Fighter 6.

[Spardacus]

No, is not an open world that need constantly to stream LODs and textures, however you can have some stutters during the traversal stages.

[SolidSonicMania]

I'm going to have to test this game by reinstalling it on my boot SSD, which should theoretically be perfectly stable.

[That Terrible Biscuit]

You do have different types of SSD's now.

Just like with every computer component and peripheral you have;

Low-cost
Standard
Performance
High-Performance

Your SSD will only be designed for bog standard tasks. SSD's are sort of dated now when it comes to gaming. Its actually the NVMe drives or PCI-E SSD's because they have huge data transfer and read/write speeds.

Everything works together obviously. Your CPU will fetch Tekken data and store it in RAM. If you are lacking in RAM your CPU will create virtual RAM and try step in for the lack of RAM but this might bottle neck other things, it will hold up your GPU too. Everything has got to work together and its got to cost a similar price.

Dont buy something top of the line and then something from the bottom. Its like getting a real nice engine for a car but bad tyres or exhaust etc

[SolidSonicMania]

Well...maybe I'm just a moron but I guess I was...overheating the GPU? It's hard to say.

I propped my laptop up then ran the game and it didn't crap out this time but the GPU was also sitting around 40-65% use in-game and was at a blistering 85 degrees even after being propped up so...*shrug*

Never had an issue with this thing going so hard before (it's an RTX 3070 laptop GPU so it shouldn't be absolutely crushed by this game). I'll have to do some more continued testing.

[Awaken]

Nah, I've tested it on a somewhat slow SSD and the performance was anecdotal. Talking about one second or two difference but really negligible.

[RubeN.]

I cant afford an ssd atm and i wanna play tekken 8 so i play it on hdd, when i get into games its all good, like online n stuff, but 90% of the time i dont even connect to the game like the match server... anyone know any fixes for this, i will get an ssd but just not yes, pls help.. ty :)