Comment on How much does storage speed affect your games?
Malix@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Way back when I switched from sata hdd’s to sata ssd’s, the experience in general was a lot snappier - but this was like ages ago and on Windows (8.1 or 10, can’t remember). Games loaded faster depending on the game.
Some months ago I was playing cyberpunk 2077 on win10 & sata3 ssd, and later on moved over to linux on pcie4 nvme on the same machine, and the loading times seem to be pretty much the same. But, admittedly way too much changed and fairly large timespan in between to draw any conclusive results.
I can confirm that fully moving Windows from a HDD to an SSD makes all the difference in the world; for some reason, W10 and especially W11 are astoundingly slow on hard disks.
I have a W11 VM, and if I run it on a SATA SSD it boots up in ~30s; HDD, the same image on a HDD takes approximately 5 minutes to get to the login screen, then no less than 2 minutes to run applications.
Even considering that I disabled paging files.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
When SSDs first were becoming mainstream and were kinda spendy, tons of R*editors spewed “it’s not important because it only affects loading time. I can wait for another 20 seconds” when games coming out would have hella microstutters, and the load times could count up to minutes per screen. Playing Bethesda games on a HDD was a nightmare, going in and out of houses!
I have a fast NVMe drive and some good SATA SSDs in my main machine, and there is only a couple second difference in loading between those. But I’d never run a program off’a HDD again.