Does this game run better on a SSD or a HDD?

[General Iffy]

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[Vilab]

Does any game run better on HDD than on SSD ?

DCS runs much better on SSD

[General Iffy]

Cool. Thanks for the replies.

[Cyber_Chupacabra]

Loading times are way better on SSD.

[MugHug]

Loading times improve from an SSD but if you only have a HDD then it is totally playable.

Not sure it DCS loads scenery from the SS/HDD as you fly from one side of the map to the other but it does not seem like it.

Buying expensive SSDs will have minimal benefit in day to day use.

[Some Call Me Tim]

DCS as with any other game doesn't run better with SSD's it's just that it loads up much quicker so there's much less waiting arround. My older PC has 4 HDDs in raid 0 and even so it takes simply ages to load up DCS missions compared to my newer PC which has 4 SSDs in raid 0. Raid 0 with SSDs is certainly the way to go if you're impatient. Along with a decent disk system DCS loves ram, the more the merrier.

[van Leeuwenhoek's mustache]

Originally posted by Some Call Me Tim:

DCS as with any other game doesn't run better with SSD's it's just that it loads up much quicker so there's much less waiting arround

Since DCS loads textures, cockpit & terrain elements, etc. from the installation folder when the player enters any aircraft, I'd argue that SSDs indeed make the game perform better.

I have two separate installations of DCS right now (one on HDD and the other on SSD).
The difference is clear even when I'm inside the cockpit, it's not just the loading times, it's the whole reading/writing that goes on during a mission that's much faster.

[MugHug]

Originally posted by Gramer Natzi:

Originally posted by Some Call Me Tim:

DCS as with any other game doesn't run better with SSD's it's just that it loads up much quicker so there's much less waiting arround

Since DCS loads textures, cockpit & terrain elements, etc. from the installation folder when the player enters any aircraft, I'd argue that SSDs indeed make the game perform better.

I have two separate installations of DCS right now (one on HDD and the other on SSD).
The difference is clear even when I'm inside the cockpit, it's not just the loading times, it's the whole reading/writing that goes on during a mission that's much faster.

Being a hardcore flight simmer using both fully kitted out PrePar3D and X-Plane 11, I can tell you about textures and meshes. I use a ton of ORBX, mesh addons and some heavy duty airport scenery. The workload put on a PC's SSD/HHD components in DCS is nowhere as close to what those two flight sims can do. But, on my PC the speed difference is not as great as some would think.

i5-6600K 4.4Ghzm 16Gb DDR-4 and a GTX 1070. I have a mixture of typical SSDs and 7200rpn HDs.

Does DCS use all the VRam in our video cards for textures?

[van Leeuwenhoek's mustache]

Originally posted by MugHug:

Does DCS use all the VRam in our video cards for textures?

I have no idea. I just notice that textures and meshes take longer to load when I run my HDD DCS installation.

[MugHug]

Originally posted by Gramer Natzi:

Originally posted by MugHug:

Does DCS use all the VRam in our video cards for textures?

I have no idea. I just notice that textures and meshes take longer to load when I run my HDD DCS installation.

Considering I can swamp my GTX 1070's VRam with P3D I wondered if DCS even gets close.

[Steinsch Commander]

Originally posted by Some Call Me Tim:

DCS as with any other game doesn't run better with SSD's it's just that it loads up much quicker so there's much less waiting arround. My older PC has 4 HDDs in raid 0 and even so it takes simply ages to load up DCS missions compared to my newer PC which has 4 SSDs in raid 0. Raid 0 with SSDs is certainly the way to go if you're impatient. Along with a decent disk system DCS loves ram, the more the merrier.

Isn't 4 SSD Raid 0 overkill as a single SSD will use pretty much all the bandwidth of the SATA 3 bus?

[MugHug]

Originally posted by Steinsch Commander:

Originally posted by Some Call Me Tim:

DCS as with any other game doesn't run better with SSD's it's just that it loads up much quicker so there's much less waiting arround. My older PC has 4 HDDs in raid 0 and even so it takes simply ages to load up DCS missions compared to my newer PC which has 4 SSDs in raid 0. Raid 0 with SSDs is certainly the way to go if you're impatient. Along with a decent disk system DCS loves ram, the more the merrier.

Isn't 4 SSD Raid 0 overkill as a single SSD will use pretty much all the bandwidth of the SATA 3 bus?

Not for bragging rights.

Sorry, could not resist that one.

[Troll Norris]

With SSD much less freezes and stutters. From slow HDD the game has sometimes problem with loading data "on time" And of course RAM is the most important.

About the video memory. In my case it takes 4-6 gigs of VRAM on max details, 2K resolution.

Originally posted by coxy:

M.2 drives are still pricey and you need a compatable mobo, God for SSD

It depends on controller. If it is PCIe or SATA then the diference in price is not such high. But if it is the AHCI or NVMe or Intel Optane, the price is much higher.

[SpeedKiller.txt]

its like you would ask if a scooter is faster then a motorcycle...

[MugHug]

Originally posted by SpeedKiller:

its like you would ask if a scooter is faster then a motorcycle...

130 mph Scooter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7M7ixdYyTM

[funkynutz]

Originally posted by Some Call Me Tim:

DCS as with any other game doesn't run better with SSD's...

MOST games don't load stuff on the fly, they preload a level first then you play - these will only load faster and won't perform any different as all the resources are already in RAM.

ANY game that loads stuff on the fly (ie while you're actually playing it) runs better when installed on an SSD...