Games/software installed on a drive that is separate from what OS is installed to

[Disgruntled Cuttlefish]

What reasons could you think of that would *negatively* impact performance on games/software installed on a separate drive than what the OS is on?

I'm paranoid and thinking of reasons why the performance is bad (it might just be the game in question or other stuff in general), I have my OS installed onto a 500 gb drive (along with a bunch of other stuff but 175 gb free space on it), and a 1 tb drive for a bunch of large games/software.

Both drives are NVME SSDs.

[_I_]

if its on a hdd, it will be longer load times and slower to install/update games

its not a bad idea to have steam and games installed on a 2nd ssd, nvme if possible

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I've been using secondary drives for my games since Win98

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

Shouldnt see a difference. Load the game files to ram play from ram
Doesnt matter if file came from c or d drive

[Bad 💀 Motha]

As long as it's on an SSD it helps.
If external then hopefully it supports USB 3.1 or 3.2; as 3.0 would be rather slow

[Midnight Aurais]

old games are the only exception there still old titles like the first windows games that boot on a c drive but refuse to boot on any other drive

now the negative about the c drive program files and program files (x86) are effectively taken hostage by trustedinstaller what does this mean for gaming wel games might not be allowed to read every file in the game folder...now game developers know this might happen so they work around the situation but you might occasionally encounter a game were the console pops up with a error that it could not load something and even if you launch the game as admin trustedinstaller might still intervene

it literally started out as a bug that some people had in program files when installing things now its a feature

if you have to install to the c drive put it in like c:\games so trustedinstaller does not take it hostage

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Or non demanding games.
Year of release alone doesn't dictate the need to be on an SSD

[Philco7a]

Top M.2 socket goes straight to CPU. Other M.2 sockets have to run through the chipset.

Using the top M.2 socket puts the GPU into 8x instead of 16x.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Origineel geplaatst door Philco7a:

Top M.2 socket goes straight to CPU. Other M.2 sockets have to run through the chipset.

Using the top M.2 socket puts the GPU into 8x instead of 16x.

No it doesn't that's why the CPU has at least 24 lanes

[_I_]

that depends on the board
look up the boards manual to see how its lanes are divided

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yea pretty much. Each board can differ, based around other factors such as installed CPU, motherboard chipset and which SSDs are in-use (PCIE 3, 4, or 5 and how many)

The dedicated GPU usually would never get pushed down to 8X unless your CPU has an onboard GPU, which with Intel this often doesn't happen, but it's normal if you have say Ryzen 5500G or 8500