Does the game require an SSD to not stutter?

[Question]

Every time i start the game, it freezes for at least 1 minute at the start screen (completely non responsive and the music stops playing). Every time i load into a battle, it stutters for a few seconds as well at the deployment screen.

I currently have it installed on a 7200rpm HDD.

[Antearz]

Originally posted by Question:

Every time i start the game, it freezes for at least 1 minute at the start screen (completely non responsive and the music stops playing). Every time i load into a battle, it stutters for a few seconds as well at the deployment screen.

I currently have it installed on a 7200rpm HDD.

That is Possible.
GFL2 tends to Load as much as Possible up Front. So without SSD it might Stutter upon Loading into Game and/or Battles.

But to make any Real Judgement on this. You would need to Share with us the Specs of your Remaining System. So we can tell where Potential Bottlenecks and Problems could be.
Not just your CPU, Ram and GPU but even your Internet Connection can affect this as well.

[Question]

Originally posted by Antearz:

Originally posted by Question:

Every time i start the game, it freezes for at least 1 minute at the start screen (completely non responsive and the music stops playing). Every time i load into a battle, it stutters for a few seconds as well at the deployment screen.

I currently have it installed on a 7200rpm HDD.

That is Possible.
GFL2 tends to Load as much as Possible up Front. So without SSD it might Stutter upon Loading into Game and/or Battles.

But to make any Real Judgement on this. You would need to Share with us the Specs of your Remaining System. So we can tell where Potential Bottlenecks and Problems could be.
Not just your CPU, Ram and GPU but even your Internet Connection can affect this as well.

Ryzen 5600, 32gb of RAM and rx6600.

[Antearz]

Originally posted by Question:

Originally posted by Antearz:

That is Possible.
GFL2 tends to Load as much as Possible up Front. So without SSD it might Stutter upon Loading into Game and/or Battles.

But to make any Real Judgement on this. You would need to Share with us the Specs of your Remaining System. So we can tell where Potential Bottlenecks and Problems could be.
Not just your CPU, Ram and GPU but even your Internet Connection can affect this as well.

Ryzen 5600, 32gb of RAM and rx6600.

That should be Decent enough Specwise.

So it leaves your HDD or your Internet Connection.

Its Surprising You dont Run an SSD in that System to begin with tough.

[Question]

Originally posted by Antearz:

Originally posted by Question:

Ryzen 5600, 32gb of RAM and rx6600.

That should be Decent enough Specwise.

So it leaves your HDD or your Internet Connection.

Its Surprising You dont Run an SSD in that System to begin with tough.

I do have an SSD. I just wanted to save space on it. I think its at like 80% health now and the more you use, the faster the health will drop because of the way SSDs work.

I tested after moving the game to the SSD and it runs pretty smoothly now, so i guess they didnt design the game for a HDD.

[Maya-Neko]

Well, SSDs are pretty much the assumed standard since PS and XBox now use them as well since around 2020, so there's not really any need to optimize things for HDD anymore at this point. Many games still work fine with it, but less due to optimization and rather due to the nature of the game (like lower rez textures in for example retro games or loading only needing to be done once for example in games like Civ)

And a single game isn't as damaging to a SSD as you might think. I've moved 156 TB on my SSD and it's still at 91 %. It would take 4,5k full installations of the game to reach that amount and even if we assume, that we use up 35 GB every single time we play the game and we're playing it twice a day, it would still take 6 years to wear the SSD for another 9 % (not to mention that i'm using a Samsung SSD, which reportetly can survive up to 10 times the specified lifespan).

And overall HDDs aren't invincible as well and if you heavily use it over your SSD, then it's probably gonna break faster than the SSD anyway, causing a similar problem.

[Syad]

Originally posted by Question:

I currently have it installed on a 7200rpm HDD.

If you have a HDD connected this means it's a desktop. And if it's a desktop you can buy a cheap SSD just for games. Checking the prices a 256GB SSD costs $20. You literally just connect it to a free port and put it somewhere and that's it.