Is an SSD card required?

[Salty Jake City]

I know the requirements say 120GBs ssd but I figured that just meant I need 120 GBs of storage. Now game crashes on startup. Could this be because I don’t have an SSD card?

[smidlee]

Yes. There maybe a mod later than allow the game run on a hard drive like Starfield ( longer loading) . I know with Star field the graphics would load in before the sound on a hdd so that sound would be a few seconds behind the graphics.

[mortuus]

I would say so, this game is very demanding, without ssd it would be pain the loading times i imagine.....

[smidlee]

If you can afford a portable ssd that is the way to go.
I often play Steam games on my portable ssd with large file sizes so I can play on multiple pc without using up so much internal storage.

[c0Zm1c]

It says "SSD required" in the system requirements.

[HerZie]

Originally posted by Salty Jake City:

I know the requirements say 120GBs ssd but I figured that just meant I need 120 GBs of storage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

[smidlee]

Not everyone knows about tech. It's possible the game could be modded like Starfield to run on a hard drive just with longer load times.
A game's requirements is not necessary set in stone.

[Scarygami]

For me it works fine without SSD. Also didn't notice any significant loading times.

[Garfield11700K]

I play with a HDD and I have no problem (120 fps). But the HDD spins all the time and loading times are a little longer.

[SteaVor]

I know, I know, not everyone has got the money and so on..... but if you can afford a raytracing GPU I'm seriously and unironically wondering how you end up with a HDD instead of SSD for storage in the year 2024.

You couldn't pay me to even boot a PC or notebook with a HDD boot disk. It's the only component where *even* non-gamers (Office application only) think their old PC from 2014 is suddenly a next-gen device as soon as you swap the HDD for an SSD. And people want to load 120 GB of textures from fragmented HDDs for graphically demanding (and gorgeously-looking) games? Wild.