Has anyone tried running this game from a solid state drive?

[Cruel Coppinger]

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...

you buy a hard drive caddy, plug it into your laptop and do a image copy of the old drive to the new one with a live boot cd/usb

Peeps on my forum will help with tech support, just google pc-forums

 

[Jarek Storm]

I have been using nothing but SSD for the last 5 years. My original 160gig intel x25-m is still working perfectly by the way, never needed a windows reinstall or anything like that. I just manually TRIM the drive once a week, and after every uninstall, and before installs. I've probably installed and uninstalled 100 or more games on it during that time.

An SSD is crucial for gamers who want the best experience. Some games are CPU heavy, others are GPU heavy, but every game relies on accessing info from the drive.

 

[Delta 2-7]

Hi I been using SSD since Jan 2014, while it's a super fast 500mbs read/write and boots PC/Win7 fast thats the only benefit I see. So I would say yes go for it but realise too that you don't want to be writing a lot to this drive as wear is reported to be an issue that I was not aware off as being an issue. (We learn something new everyday) Hope that helps

 

[MarcusReed]

I was just wondering as I have heard games run from SSD's can run far more smoothly and offer better optimisation for machines that struggle with certain programs. Upgrading to an SSD can breath new extended life into aging hardware. Can anyone verify if this is true?

I play from a SSD. We are still bound by the servers so I believe that's were our stability will come from.

 

[Hrv123]

Have ED on SSD, have no idea how much faster it is as I newer installed it to HDD to know for comparison. But by logic once all zilion skins, planet landings etc that would add loading stuff, ssd would speed thing up, or HDD slow down, depends on perspective. But I cant wait for 64 bit exe version, that will be... love

 

[diventkna]

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 would have to agree with this, after bug crashes and Esc logging back to menu screen I am up and running again in seconds. However, as the first post asked about breathing life into an aging machine, I am not so sure.

 

[Glock_17]

I was just wondering as I have heard games run from SSD's can run far more smoothly and offer better optimisation for machines that struggle with certain programs. Upgrading to an SSD can breath new extended life into aging hardware. Can anyone verify if this is true?

I run everything of a SSD. Takes care of a lot of loadlag/stuttering in plenty of games. I wouldn't know for ED specifically, since i never had it on a HDD.

But in case of upgrading i would do it as the last part tbh, unless the HDD you have would be the biggest bottle neck.
Upgrading a single part is rarely the fix you expect it to be however. Having balanced components is worth more then having a killer SSD wich is then bottlenecked by the rest.

Also if your system is really out of date, you could be better of starting fresh. And then keep the thing up to date by just updating a 1 or 2 components each year. (My own rig costs me about 150-300 a year. Nothing silly, just enough to keep buying the components wich have been on the markets for enough months to drop their prices. But i can play most new games at 60 FPS ) If you check the benchmarksites you can often find scores and price ranges of parts, making it easy to see wich parts are about your wallet size.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/ I use this one a lot myself when its that time of year again

 

[1500]

I love my SSD but I don't think you will notice much of a difference in ED, just because there really are not many load screens and the game uses very little memory. But an SSD is great for many other games and software.