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Re: Doom

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How much do SSDs improve gaming? It just improves the initial loading time, doesn't it?

Some games seem to take forever to load (Dragon Age: Inquisition, Star Wars: Battlefront. Hmm, both EA games...) but I'm not sure if improved loading times is worth juggling what's on there all the time.

I just have Windows + stuff that loads up at start up on my SSD.
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Re: Doom

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Just loading, no improvement in streaming game data while you play from what I've read. Doom load times aren't that bad on a mechanical hard drive, I should have just left on there to begin with.
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Yeah, load times are definitely better but in terms of actual gameplay very little difference. All of my games are on traditional platter drives. Better bang for buck storage wise.

Also makes it much less of a hassle to reinstall Windows when your big data is on other drives I'd even consider going for a smaller OS SSD drive next time. Only use it for programs and Windows.
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Re: Doom

Post by lestat »

SSD is for my OS, all my games are on platter drives, 2+5 TB. In tests I found that streaming in open world games was no better on a SSD, it's largely the game engine and video drivers/VRAM which determines stutter/performance.
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Re: Doom

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I wish there was an option to remove the multiplayer shit from this install, reduce the install size by around 60 gig haha.

Best single player campaign ever.
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