I was curious about something, so, is an ssd actually required?

[Vahnkiljoy]

Have devs already reached this point now? From the demo this game didn't seem like it was going be so fast paced or anything like that for an ssd to be a requirement, or is this just the price forced by the new unreal?

I have one that I got for Stanfield, was hoping that'd be it, until AW2, and now I see this....

[JinxTheWorld]

Generally an SSD is just gonna be better overall regardless and not just for loading times. Most likely SSD is recommended for texture streaming. The game isn't graphically impressive or anything, just very artistic in it's approach. Which they have done a fine job with, giving the illusion of a high fidelity in some places.

Though compared to the demo it is running far better. The demo when it was released several months ago had pretty bad traversal stutter, but so far i have experienced very little to none.

In all honesty you could probably get away with running this game on a HDD, but the experience may be less than ideal when entering new areas with some pop-in and perhaps a few large stutters.

Anyways i would just stick to using the SSD so your experience is a good as possible.

[necuz]

It takes a ton of work to make a game run off a HDD or optical media and with the current consoles now having SSDs it's just wasted effort. Even literally the cheapest SSDs money can buy will have sequential read speeds over 3x of a regular HDD.

[Vahnkiljoy]

Originally posted by JinxTheWorld:

Generally an SSD is just gonna be better overall regardless and not just for loading times. Most likely SSD is recommended for texture streaming. The game isn't graphically impressive or anything, just very artistic in it's approach. Which they have done a fine job with, giving the illusion of a high fidelity in some places.

Though compared to the demo it is running far better. The demo when it was released several months ago had pretty bad traversal stutter, but so far i have experienced very little to none.

In all honesty you could probably get away with running this game on a HDD, but the experience may be less than ideal when entering new areas with some pop-in and perhaps a few large stutters.

Anyways i would just stick to using the SSD so your experience is a good as possible.

Odd because the demo ran flawlessly for myself just fine on my hdd.

[Terra]

no one uses hdd since 2014

[Vahnkiljoy]

Originally posted by Terra:

no one uses hdd since 2014

That's quite an idiotic statement.

[Simplex]

It would be less idiotic it they wrote "almost noone uses hdd for games since 2020", but in current state it is pretty idiotic. in 2014 SSDs were still expensive as hell and games did not take full advantege of their capabilities.

Originally posted by Vahnkiljoy:

I was curious about something, so, is an ssd actually required?

According to system requirements, SSD is recommended, not required. The game should run fine on modern HDD, because it's UE4 not UE5.

[Historian]

They go for seamless area transitions, the maps are huge, so SSDs handle the brunt of the transition loading quickly.

[Simplex]

There's still a short traversal stutter even on a fast SSD, but that's UE4 "feature".

[Escapist]

In almost all things, yes. SSD's aren't prohibitively expensive any more. Buy one.