Honestly if you don’t have an SSD save 50$ and get one. Especially for crappier pcs it’s the most significant upgrade you can do and not even for gaming. 10 years ago SSDs were somewhat niche. They were expensive as well. Now I won’t even touch a computer without one basically.
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tyrefyre@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
SSD Required? Wat
JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 2 years ago
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
It is not at all sustainable to game on HDDs anymore. They are still good for slow cold storage, though.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It wasn’t sustainable 5 years ago.
BlinkAndItsGone@lemm.ee 2 years ago
It’s probably not 100% necessary; even Jak & Daxter: Rift Apart, which leans heavily on DirectStorage-type loading speeds to switch between worlds on the fly, can be played off a hard drive, tests have shown. But any PC built in the last 5+ years really should have an SSD.
beefcat@lemmy.world 2 years ago
“Playable” and “good experience” don’t necessarily mean the same thing though. Those rift transitions in R&C are rough on anything less than a decent NVMe SSD. Though there may be some room for improvement, as even high end NVMe drives struggle to handle these transitions as gracefully as the PS5.
AngryMob@lemmy.one 2 years ago
Yes. Now that all the consoles have ssds, devs are going to design their games around them. That means asset streaming is the norm. Amd that means hdds will cause massive pop-in and stutters.