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What SSD should I buy? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 4 months ago by Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
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For context, my brother gave me Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2 for my birthday, and it has to be installed on an SSD. When I installed it on my D: drive, which, is an HDD, the game froze a few seconds into the opening cutscene, but the sound kept playing. After looking up this problem online, I found out that the hardware requirements section on the game's store page says "SSD required".

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[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I've personally found the pcpartpicker website to be a great comparison resource for specs and prices, also decent for checking compatibility.

Consider if you want to have a smaller or medium sized SSD startup drive (C:) and a larger second HDD drive (D:) since HDD is cheaper. That would probably require a new ~~Windows~~ Linux :) re-installation but the computer will be faster to load and run programs installed on the SSD.

~~That said, I don't game much but I don't understand why an HDD could possibly cause a game to freeze instead of just load slowly. Are you sure it's not some other incompatibility, like running 32 bit (x86) instead of 64 bit (x86 64, unfortunately aka x64), or not having a compatible GPU?~~ [edit: see replies]

[–] Vertraumir@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand why an HDD could possibly cause a game to freeze instead of just load slowly

Modern game developers don't cache textures into ram or GPU and prefer to load them on demand, so your disk is always working and and your game will freeze or look like 2 pixels if it's not fast enough to serve all the textures on time

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining.