Has anyone tried running this game from a solid state drive?
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Little to none in the way you describe really. Only makes a big difference in games with a lot of LOD or loading screens. Don't believe all the SSD hype, but they're pretty cheap nowadays.
It does decrease loading times a lot and it increases OS speeds ... it doesn't really help with the fact that aging hardware probably doesn't have the GPU power to run new games.
I have a sandforce 550 mb/s solid state drive which I run my OS, elite dangerous, and other games from. It definitely helps in a lot of ways. I'm able to load my caches information very quickly (pagefile), loading times are low, and if there is a new texture it needs to access from the SSD for a game, it does so with minimal impact as the seek time is near instant. It is very rare that I encounter performance issues with my rig.
That being said, I also have an 8 core processor running at 4.0 GHZ, and a nvidia GTX 860.
For your question about breathing life into aging hardware, it entirely depends on the problem you are having. If it's taking a long time to load information into memory, but the memory is able to perform the calculations fast enough once it's there, then yes, a solid state drive will definitely help you out. In any situation where a game is loading data, it will be faster, assuming your memory can load it quick enough (It really should unless we're talking ddr1 or maybe earlier)
For elite dangerous, if I launch the game, I'm good to fly in about 40 seconds. From hitting play, to the time I'm in my ship ready to launch or play/whatever, it takes me exactly 40 seconds.
Important notes:
- If you have constant low frame rates, not just pauses while it loads information, a SSD will not help you.
- If the above is true in any fashion, or just on high graphic settings, it will not improve performance.
That being said, I also have an 8 core processor running at 4.0 GHZ, and a nvidia GTX 860.
For your question about breathing life into aging hardware, it entirely depends on the problem you are having. If it's taking a long time to load information into memory, but the memory is able to perform the calculations fast enough once it's there, then yes, a solid state drive will definitely help you out. In any situation where a game is loading data, it will be faster, assuming your memory can load it quick enough (It really should unless we're talking ddr1 or maybe earlier)
For elite dangerous, if I launch the game, I'm good to fly in about 40 seconds. From hitting play, to the time I'm in my ship ready to launch or play/whatever, it takes me exactly 40 seconds.
Important notes:
- If you have constant low frame rates, not just pauses while it loads information, a SSD will not help you.
- If the above is true in any fashion, or just on high graphic settings, it will not improve performance.
I have the game installed on a Crucial MX100 SSD and the loading times are still incredibly long.
As others have said, an SSD generally won't help a lot with gaming performance. It's more about loading times for your games and windows startup. SSD's can help with gaming performance in certain cases but I really don't want to go into that here as it's a long discussion.
As others have said, an SSD generally won't help a lot with gaming performance. It's more about loading times for your games and windows startup. SSD's can help with gaming performance in certain cases but I really don't want to go into that here as it's a long discussion.
Depends on the game, if the loading time is due to waiting on servers it doesn't help much if it is due to the game accessing the HDD all the time and being slow then yes it makes a huge difference.
Really though any "newer" machine should have a ssd and a hdd. You put the OS and w/e games on the ssd and videos and whatnot on your hdd. If you are streaming it is also a good idea to make sure the streaming program (like obs) is recording to a different drive than the game.
There is no hype I will never ever have a OS on a HDD again.
Really though any "newer" machine should have a ssd and a hdd. You put the OS and w/e games on the ssd and videos and whatnot on your hdd. If you are streaming it is also a good idea to make sure the streaming program (like obs) is recording to a different drive than the game.
There is no hype I will never ever have a OS on a HDD again.
I only moved my Elite: Dangerous from HDD to SSD last week (Crucial MX100 512MB) I can tell you that it makes A LOT of differences in game with regards to those mini-lockups when the game is loading the planets and orbits.
Those that say there is no effect I don't think they have played on HDD or SSD side by side (which I have, because I put in my second SSD just last week and played on the same day).
Game loading screen though, not much difference.
Btw, if youa re getting SSD, get at least 256MB because 128MB generally slower read/write speeds.
I'm using a Crucial 256GB SSD which loads windows 8.1 in about 4-5 seconds from full shutdown. Most games load substantially faster than with the old 7200 RPM HDD I had but once the game is loaded, it makes absolutely no difference. So no, it won't breath new life into an old machine unless you simply want windows to load faster.
well it is not actuallly an old machine. It is brand new. It has an i7 2 core 1.8ghz with 4 thread boosting to 3 ghz. It has a radeon graphics card (AMD) 665 in think? Also 8GB of RAM. The machine also has HD4000 (i think that is what it is called?) where it draws from the CPU to do graphics if the card can't handle it.
This machine actually runs the game very well and since last night there is hardly any stuttering with the Gamma. I was just wondering though do SSD drives improve things in general and if so can you use an external SSD and run the game from it? I am not sure if you can do that or if it has to be on your main drive on the machine?
With this game it is difficult to know if the problems with it are on their end or ours. But from the gamma I suspect a lot of it is from their end. It may be best to wait and see the full release to get a proper overview...
This machine actually runs the game very well and since last night there is hardly any stuttering with the Gamma. I was just wondering though do SSD drives improve things in general and if so can you use an external SSD and run the game from it? I am not sure if you can do that or if it has to be on your main drive on the machine?
With this game it is difficult to know if the problems with it are on their end or ours. But from the gamma I suspect a lot of it is from their end. It may be best to wait and see the full release to get a proper overview...
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Well, running an external SSD will reduce throughput to USB port speeds, so you're better off it being internal.
As others have said, an SSD boosts performance when accessing lots of data, such as OS booting and games that have a large storage footprint, because they can be loaded to memory a lot quicker than mechanical storage.
ED doesn't require much disk space compared to most titles (just under 3gb expanded at Gamma 1.0) and I've not noticed that much difference compared to a standard drive.
So, there are benefits but not really that many when used for ED- I still get stutters and freezes as before using SSD, so I'd say to code still needs more optimisation rather than a lack of throughput requiring faster disks.
As others have said, an SSD boosts performance when accessing lots of data, such as OS booting and games that have a large storage footprint, because they can be loaded to memory a lot quicker than mechanical storage.
ED doesn't require much disk space compared to most titles (just under 3gb expanded at Gamma 1.0) and I've not noticed that much difference compared to a standard drive.
So, there are benefits but not really that many when used for ED- I still get stutters and freezes as before using SSD, so I'd say to code still needs more optimisation rather than a lack of throughput requiring faster disks.
SSD's improve the loading performance of certain games that tend to be loading a lot of data, e.g. fantasy MMOs where you're moving from zone to zone and the game is constantly fetching terrain data, character models, etc. from the drive, which can result in a bit of stuttering when you first enter a new area. Certainly the overall experience on other games improved drastically for me when I upgraded to an SSD. However Elite isn't really in this category so I doubt you would see a vast improvement.
Not sure about external SSDs though I can't imagine it would be much different. Is there a reason why you would want to have an external drive specifically? Or just no more room in your new machine?
With that machine you shouldn't be having any performance problems - are you experiencing specific issues? or just the 'normal' problems that pretty much everyone is getting, e.g. stuttering near some planets in supercruise. If it's the latter then I wouldn't be too concerned, there are some known performance issues that the developers are addressing, they made some significant improvements with beta 3.9 and gamma, and I would expect further tweaking and improvements over the course of gamma.
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I've had ED on SSD since day one.
Seeing as I generate the super-sized netLog diagnostics, I've sym-linked the "Logs" directory off to a traditional HDD. If you're not collecting and submitting vast netLog data to FD, you don't need to bother with that.
Seeing as I generate the super-sized netLog diagnostics, I've sym-linked the "Logs" directory off to a traditional HDD. If you're not collecting and submitting vast netLog data to FD, you don't need to bother with that.
Hmm, Raid 0 SSD system drive; I see a future in which your computer transforms into a brick.
Raid 1 for me, SSD speed benefits + fault tolerance.
I have had ED on a SSD (Crucial M500) and my system has 16Gb ram and a i7 at > 4.5 Ghz
I still get the occasional stutter although its been vastly improved in gamma.
I still get the occasional stutter although its been vastly improved in gamma.
Well you see when I bought my laptop it came with windows installed on the drive. There was no disk. So if I ripped out the old drive (1TB) and replaced it with a solid state drive then how would I reinstall all my programs and windows?
My machine actually boots up extreamly fast. It is almost instant so maybe it has an SSD in there already? Are they becoming a standard these days on new machines? I must check what kind of drive is actually in there...
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