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MonoAlice Dec 8, 2017 @ 10:51pm
Does my free hard disk space affect my FPS?
I usually put the game in D disk
But I bought GTAV last night
And after installed
My free hard disk still have 39 GB (full D disk have 399GB)
Does that affect my FPS?

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Omega Dec 8, 2017 @ 10:57pm 
No.
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MonoAlice Dec 8, 2017 @ 10:58pm 
Originally posted by Omega:
No.
Thank you very much!
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Bad 💀 Motha Dec 8, 2017 @ 11:03pm 
But still, verify the game cache.
Then defrag the HDD
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Hare+Guu! Dec 9, 2017 @ 12:50am 
Unless you have painfully low ram, it shouldn't. But considering you only have a 400gb drive, it seems like you do.
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MonoAlice Dec 9, 2017 @ 1:50am 
Originally posted by Hare+Guu!:
Unless you have painfully low ram, it shouldn't. But considering you only have a 400gb drive, it seems like you do.
My pc is with 6GB ram
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Arya Dec 9, 2017 @ 2:05am 
Free HDD space has no effect on FPS. But you do want a "buffer" of maybe 20 GB. If you have less than that free, it's time to install a second HDD.

I would also suggest upgrading your RAM for playing GTA-V. A lot of newly released games need 8GB of RAM or more. And that really is going to hurt your performance.
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Bad 💀 Motha Dec 9, 2017 @ 2:17am 
Yea you definitely need 8-16GB RAM for games like GTAV
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Arya Dec 9, 2017 @ 2:23am 
Originally posted by Bad_Motha:
Yea you definitely need 8-16GB RAM for games like GTAV

^^ Absolutely.

So all games use some amount of RAM, and GTA uses a whole lot. If you don't have enough RAM to run a game, your PC has to use your HDD as extra memory. And because HDDs have such a slow data rate, that kills your framerate.

If you want to play games like that, you're going to need more power.
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