SSD or HDD?

[Mr. Pink]

does it make a difference where this is installed? just i know star citizen had to be installed on my SSD as it ran like s**t on my HDD

[Orion Invictus]

Faster loading times on an SSD. Other than that, you should be fine.

[Mr. Pink]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Faster loading times on an SSD. Other than that, you should be fine.

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[Idaho]

My game never had an issue no matter what medium it was installed upon. It seems NMS is mostly GPU intensive.

[Mr.SeriousCatt]

Originally posted by Farmer JJ:

My game never had an issue no matter what medium it was installed upon. It seems NMS is mostly GPU intensive.

Whats your rig? I have a 8700k and a 1070ti, thinking on buying the game but I saw ppl lately saying it needs an ssd.

[Zetskey]

Originally posted by Farmer JJ:

My game never had an issue no matter what medium it was installed upon. It seems NMS is mostly GPU intensive.

An SSD is always faster than an HDD. However, if the game's majority load time consists majority of loading textures into RAM or some other action outside of simply "reading the drive", then you wont notice anything. Also, if you have a bad rig, then installing an SSD probably wouldn't help as much as replacing an HDD on a mid level rig.

None the less, an SSD is always faster than an HDD.

[Krash Megiddo]

My experience:
The loading screen takes 2-5 mins on HHD
20-30 secs on SSD

[TheCr33pur]

Better get SSD, its twice as fast uploading data for this. Simple old games doesnt matter.

[Metal_Bard]

Get SSD, though I wonder if in my case since I usually use a laptop, (thank you chip shortage, crypto fever) if an external SSD can be reliable?

Also scalper bots. We can't forget them.

[Kael Rhain]

SSD helps a lot on loading and pop up

[Holyvision]

HDD is obsolete, SSD always

[sstooney]

SSD.
Or wait minutes when warp or teleport between systems.

PS: The game uses just 12Gb. Not 60-120.

[Idaho]

Originally posted by Krash Megiddo:

My experience:
The loading screen takes 2-5 mins on HHD
20-30 secs on SSD

This is definitely the case. With a fast nvme .m2 drive, a top of the line CPU, and 32GB of fast RAM, my load times have gone from 2 minutes down to about 15-18 seconds for the startup starfield, and jumps between star systems are usually about 7-8 seconds.

[.o8--GBH--8o.]

Originally had it installed on my HDD and experienced long load times. Moved it to my SSD and have no intention of moving it back. Much quicker on the SSD.

[weiss]

Originally posted by Farmer JJ:

Originally posted by Krash Megiddo:

My experience:
The loading screen takes 2-5 mins on HHD
20-30 secs on SSD

This is definitely the case. With a fast nvme .m2 drive, a top of the line CPU, and 32GB of fast RAM, my load times have gone from 2 minutes down to about 15-18 seconds for the startup starfield, and jumps between star systems are usually about 7-8 seconds.

lol no, wrong. it depends solely on how fast an SSD or the HDD is Oo
between my SSD and HDD is barely no difference. on my SSD goes the game in about 10 seconds ingame (aka loading the universe) on my HDD is it about 20~40 seconds. it depends on your cpu and ram aswell, i have for example 32GB ram where the game can go wild during loading times, which brings me to the 2nd wrong fact.

Originally posted by Farmer JJ:

My game never had an issue no matter what medium it was installed upon. It seems NMS is mostly GPU intensive.

this is wrong aswell.
if this would be the case would you have different statistics via task manager.
do you ever looked at your task manager while you play NMS?

NMS uses the cpu way more then the gpu due to npcs, procedual loading etc. and ram for keeping things in cache for faster access, example; when you enter the multiplayer anomaly keeps it the system from which you came in, in your cache to avoid loading times.

to be fair, i have a fairly fast HDD which is a WDC WD40EZRZ-22GXCB0 (pew thats a name) vs my SSD which is a Samsung SSD 970 Pro. i mean, my HDD is not nearly as fast as my SSD but compared to usual HDD´s is the WDC WD40 one of the fastest you can get.

overall does it not matter where you install it if your HDD is not the standard.
tho what i noticed is that the Xbox store version of this game did load really long on my HDD. i got the steam version because ... the xbox store is always behind with updates -.- ... its really annoying and you cant play with friends for several weeks sometimes because of it. here on the steam version loads the universe WAY faster for some reason O.o.

[Idaho]

Originally posted by Chiro:

Originally posted by Farmer JJ:

This is definitely the case. With a fast nvme .m2 drive, a top of the line CPU, and 32GB of fast RAM, my load times have gone from 2 minutes down to about 15-18 seconds for the startup starfield, and jumps between star systems are usually about 7-8 seconds.

lol no, wrong. it depends solely on how fast an SSD or the HDD is Oo
between my SSD and HDD is barely no difference. on my SSD goes the game in about 10 seconds ingame (aka loading the universe) on my HDD is it about 20~40 seconds. it depends on your cpu and ram aswell, i have for example 32GB ram where the game can go wild during loading times, which brings me to the 2nd wrong fact.

Originally posted by Farmer JJ:

My game never had an issue no matter what medium it was installed upon. It seems NMS is mostly GPU intensive.

this is wrong aswell.
if this would be the case would you have different statistics via task manager.
do you ever looked at your task manager while you play NMS?

NMS uses the cpu way more then the gpu due to npcs, procedual loading etc. and ram for keeping things in cache for faster access, example; when you enter the multiplayer anomaly keeps it the system from which you came in, in your cache to avoid loading times.

to be fair, i have a fairly fast HDD which is a WDC WD40EZRZ-22GXCB0 (pew thats a name) vs my SSD which is a Samsung SSD 970 Pro. i mean, my HDD is not nearly as fast as my SSD but compared to usual HDD´s is the WDC WD40 one of the fastest you can get.

overall does it not matter where you install it if your HDD is not the standard.
tho what i noticed is that the Xbox store version of this game did load really long on my HDD. i got the steam version because ... the xbox store is always behind with updates -.- ... its really annoying and you cant play with friends for several weeks sometimes because of it. here on the steam version loads the universe WAY faster for some reason O.o.

Your CPU is probably the bottleneck.