Does playing this game on an SSD over an HDD make a difference?

[MrWolf202]

Some games like Cyberpunk 2077 recommend playing on an SSD and make no difference in performance. Then there are those like Dead Space, where playing on an SSD is required because the game becomes a performance mess on an HDD.

I prefer having all my games together on the large HDD of my computer instead of using my small-capacity SSD. I only moved Dead Space to my SSD because the game is unplayable on an HDD. Since this game stutters a lot when I already have an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, an GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, and 32 GB of RAM, I think my HDD is causing the bottleneck. Either that or the game is not optimized on PC.

Does an SSD make a difference in performance in this game? Will the game stop stuttering if I switch it to my SSD?

Edit: Moving the game to my PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, my OS drive, did not fix the stuttering and frame drops. The game does not have a performance difference between my SSD and HDD. I got my answer. The game is still playable, regardless. Now stop fighting and play the game.

[💖jurassic💖rappy32💖]

Postat inițial de MrWolf202:

Some games like Cyberpunk 2077 recommend playing on an SSD and make no difference in performance. Then there are those like Dead Space, where playing on an SSD is required because the game becomes a performance mess on an HDD.

I prefer having all my games together on the large HDD of my computer instead of using my small-capacity SSD. I only moved Dead Space to my SSD because the game is unplayable on an HDD. Since this game stutters a lot when I already have an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, an GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, and 32 GB of RAM, I think my HDD is causing the bottleneck. Either that or the game is not optimized on PC.

Does an SSD make a difference in performance in this game? Will the game stop stuttering if I switch it to my SSD?

Nope I have 2 hard drives in my computer

[MrWolf202]

Postat inițial de TimmyP:

No meaningful difference. Tried on WD Blue SSD and HDD (5400rpm).

There is longer load times, but thats it. No hard drive induced stutter whatsoever.

I really don't care about loading screens as long as the game does not take more than 20 minutes to load.

[MrWolf202]

Postat inițial de Nightfire:

Here is a good video showing the speed difference in loading videogames, don't forget, HDD's have a limited life, they will break eventually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn5jvmH6_XE

I really don't care about loading screens as long as the game does not take more than 20 minutes to load, which all the games I've played do not. SSDs break too, if you write to them a lot. I am constantly installing and uninstalling games because of friends.

[MrWolf202]

Postat inițial de Boxer:

Learn the basics of a computer or go back to console.
HDDs haven't been considered capable of running games for years now.

I have been playing games on HDDs for years. I have never seen an issue.

[Koz]

just about any and all games will run better on an SSD compared to HDD. its disk speed for reading and writing data, so yeah, load times will be better. and because there not many loading screens you'd think this wont matter, but it will because the game still uses loading zones between areas you you will get a pause if the game doesnt load by time you enter an area (usdually split by bigger doors, like hogwarts entrance etc...)

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Postat inițial de MrWolf202:

Postat inițial de un_synapse:

Does playing any modern game made in the last 10 years play better on a SSD over a HDD?

Yes.

Almost a requirement in the last year. SATA SSD's are dirt cheap. If you don't have one by now, GET ONE.

I have not seen a significant difference to compel me to play my games on an SSD, especially when an SSD is still way too expensive compared to a 4 TB HDD.

Do you REALLY need to keep 4TB of games on your computer? I run off a 2TB drive for my games and its MORE than plenty.

And if you don't see the difference in load times between a HDD and SSD are you only playing Minecraft and Stardew Valley?

[TimmyP]

Postat inițial de Boxer:

Learn the basics of a computer or go back to console.
HDDs haven't been considered capable of running games for years now.

Name a single game that wont run on a 5400rpm HDD.

[MrWolf202]

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Postat inițial de MrWolf202:

I have not seen a significant difference to compel me to play my games on an SSD, especially when an SSD is still way too expensive compared to a 4 TB HDD.

Do you REALLY need to keep 4TB of games on your computer? I run off a 2TB drive for my games and its MORE than plenty.

And if you don't see the difference in load times between a HDD and SSD are you only playing Minecraft and Stardew Valley?

I do see a difference, but I do not see a significant difference, especially because my HDD has a cache. Cyberpunk 2077 and The Callisto Protocol work just fine on my HDD.

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Postat inițial de MrWolf202:

Postat inițial de un_synapse:

Do you REALLY need to keep 4TB of games on your computer? I run off a 2TB drive for my games and its MORE than plenty.

And if you don't see the difference in load times between a HDD and SSD are you only playing Minecraft and Stardew Valley?

I do see a difference, but I do not see a significant difference, especially because my HDD has a cache. Cyberpunk 2077 and The Callisto Protocol work just fine on my HDD.

Then its a Hybrid drive. Quite the difference.

[MrWolf202]

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Postat inițial de MrWolf202:

I do see a difference, but I do not see a significant difference, especially because my HDD has a cache. Cyberpunk 2077 and The Callisto Protocol work just fine on my HDD.

Then its a Hybrid drive. Quite the difference.

It does when it comes to the loading screens. But like I said earlier, I do not care about the loading screens; I only care about the stutters caused by the drive's speed! So, if the game is also stuttering on computers with SSDs on similar hardware, then clearly, this is not an issue caused by my HDD!

By the way, I just tested the game on the SSD; I had to uninstall Dead Space to do that! The stutters are still present! So no, it is not the HDD, and I uninstalled Dead Space for nothing!

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OH NO! You did something to troubleshoot and find out that it does not fix the issue?!

Welcome to IT.
Also, if you are having a tift that the thing you tried to see if it fixed the issue was uninstalling a game... wow. Better just turn into Fry from Futurama. FIX IT! FIX IT! FIX IT! FIX IT! FIX IT! FIX IT! FIX IT! FIX IT! FIX IT! FIX IT! FIX IT! FIX IT! FIX IT! FIX IT! FIX IT!

[TimmyP]

"Then its a Hybrid drive. Quite the difference"

Lol all HDDs have always had cache. Hybrid drives are SSD and HDD together (SSHDD).

Very incorrect of you.

[MrWolf202]

The day one patch fixed most of the performance issues and stutters I was having.

Edit: Never mind, it looked like my issues were gone until I visited Hogsmeade, and my framerate dropped significantly again.

[nathenhoard]

You’re wrong about Dead Space Remake. I played it on an HDD with no issues. Runs in 4K at 60fps perfectly. I only have 2TB of SSD space and 10TB of HDD space. So when games like Dead Space and Hogwarts Legacy don’t make a difference with SSD (I know, I’ve check), then I just keep them on the HDD.

[robruckus65]

Postat inițial de Ceriss:

Under no circumstances should anyone be gaming on an HDD in 2023.

As someone said too, HDD's will give out eventually, and they'll tank your performance as they do it.

Ssd's have a limited amount of times you can rewrite data on them before they just die depending on use hdd's last longer. Very few games honestly need the read write speed of an ssd besides cutting down load times.I have a WD black nvme 1 tb that is used solely for games requiring fast read write, a wd blue sata ssd with windows on it, and a 2 tb hdd for storage and games that dont care about read write. I also have a 2 tb external hdd set up as a bootable for bactocera. Ive honestly only seen a handful of games have any significant impact between being on the hdd, the sata ssd, or the nvme.