Installing to SSD or HDD?

[HedlessChickn]

As many of you probably already do as well, I have Win10 installed to my SSD, and use my HDD for everything else.

I installed Fallout 4 to my HDD when I first got it, and eventually reinstalled to my SSD instead and saw my loading times drop by several seconds. Since it so often has to load new assets in that game, shaving off several seconds every time it has to load ends up saving a ton of time.

When I buy Planet Coaster, should I go ahead and put it on my SSD? Will it affect performance in the same way? I don't have the Alpha so I can't try it out myself, but has anyone else?

From what I understand from watching streams or whatever, it seems that it only loads when you start loading a park. Am I correct in this assumption?

Thanks.

 

[breezerHOG1]

SSD is known for being faster, but this doesnt have to do with the game more of a technical support question

 

[AndyC1]

An SSD will certainly help reduce loading times - however there's more to loading than how fast we can physically read the data from the hdd / ssd. We load a bunch of data upfront while the loading screen is visible, but then higher detail assets stream in after this point. Also we'll only load what you actually have in your park, so if you stamp something down later this may well require more data to be loaded.

If you have the space available on your SSD (and Planet Coaster is pretty small - we're currently under 5gb) then I'd recommend it, but it's not essential.

Cheers

Andy

 

[nathanasmiddy20]

Hey,

any chance it would work on this

Chassis & Display Defiance Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD IPS LED Widescreen (1920x1080)

Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™ i7 Quad Core Processor 6700HQ (2.6GHz, 3.5GHz Turbo)

Memory (RAM) 16GB HyperX IMPACT 2133MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 8GB)

Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 - 6.0GB GDDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1, G-SYNC

Memory - Hard Disk 1TB WD SLIM BLUE 2.5" WD10SPCX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (5400 rpm)

M.2 SSD Drive 256GB SANDISK X400 M.2 2280 (up to 540MB/R, 520MB/W)

Memory Card Reader Integrated 6 in 1 Card Reader (SD /Mini SD/ SDHC / SDXC / MMC / RSMMC)

 

[Palaber1984]

Hey,

any chance it would work on this

Chassis & Display Defiance Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD IPS LED Widescreen (1920x1080)

Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™ i7 Quad Core Processor 6700HQ (2.6GHz, 3.5GHz Turbo)

Memory (RAM) 16GB HyperX IMPACT 2133MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 8GB)

Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 - 6.0GB GDDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1, G-SYNC

Memory - Hard Disk 1TB WD SLIM BLUE 2.5" WD10SPCX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (5400 rpm)

M.2 SSD Drive 256GB SANDISK X400 M.2 2280 (up to 540MB/R, 520MB/W)

Memory Card Reader Integrated 6 in 1 Card Reader (SD /Mini SD/ SDHC / SDXC / MMC / RSMMC)

It is a Shame to ask this question! I mean you have latest cpu and latest graphicscard. "Any chance it would work on this?" Puh

The game runs even with 2 years old computer or older ones!

 

[aDOLPHINjoy18]

I highly recommend SSD. SSD's are WAYYYYYYYYYYY more faster at loading and saving compared to HDD's. For example, an SSD can boot up and load everything on a desktop in like 12 seconds. Where as an HDD takes 2-4 minutes. Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox 360 (has a 5400rpm HDD) takes 20 seconds to load a save and 6 seconds to save. But that very game played on my PC which has a Kingston Fury HyperX 240GB SSD takes 1 second to save and 2 seconds to load in that same game.

I decided to get my first custom desktop PC earlier this year. I got it through this special NZ company called 1stwavetechnologies. I should have scrapped out the 1TB HDD that is on my PC for a 1TB SSD (eg. Samsung Evo something series). But the price of SSD's especially in NZ can be more expensive. My PC has 240GB SSD. It was actually a very last minute decision after someone recommended an SSD, I contacted the company to ask if I could add in an SSD system and they said sure.

I have my OS, final fantasy xiii, the sims 4 with get together, get to work and dine out expansion packs, cities skylines, some pics, and have 95GB left out of my 240GB SSD. I estimate you may only need like up to 30GB SSD space for the game and save files.

Especially when you have this game which is extremely CPU intensive (I even have a 6th gen Intel Core i7-6700k 4-4.2Ghz quad core processor which is fact a high end desktop PC processor), even with my SSD, it takes about 14 seconds to load one of my parks with 4,000 people on it. Imagine how long it would take a 5400rpm or 7200rpm HDD to load it.... probably like 90-120 seconds.

 

[Eileithia]

In the most simple form - you go for an SSD when you want speed, and you go for an HDD when you want capacity. There are single drive 8TB HDD's on the market now. The equivalent SSD would be more than 10 times the price. The issue with SSD is it does still have a limited number of write-cycles.

You don't want to use an SSD if you're constantly writing over data on your drive, like video capture/editing, RAID arrays, routine backups etc. Too many rewrites to an SSD and you'll start to lose capacity and end up with file corruption. SSD's are perfect for things like the OS and Games though because the actual installed files change very infrequently. You'll basically end up replacing your computer before you need to worry about data loss.

 

[Helena]

I use SSD for all my software including games, plus the most used user files (spread over two devices). It is starting to become tight now so I want to buy a larger one. Eventually.

I have the larger mechanical HDD for files/documents that are larger. My millions of photos+RAW for example.

 

[Ramm]

The game isn't big in size so SSD would be the logic choice for that extra smooth performance

its not like the game is 60gb or anything XD and even then i personally have 2 SSD's for games that are 60gb [tongue]

but planet coaster is maybe 2gb or something? i doubt anyone with an SSD cant miss that