WhosMansIsThis

I think your problem is, at least in part, due to the fact that you're connecting via usb. No matter how fast your drive is capable of going, your machine has to negotiate the read/write speeds based on the number of lanes available for the entire system.

You can think of it like this: all of your usb ports share physical 'data lanes' that exist on your machines motherboard. These data lanes send information to and from your external device and the cpu. Additionally, most motherboard manufactuers hardwire various internal components into these data lanes as a way to save money without sacrificing hardware features. So now your external drive has to share a limited number of data lanes with all of your usb ports + anything else the manufacture decided to hardwire into.

When you connect your usb device to your machine, the device tells your operating system 'hey, I can do 100000 writes per second' then your operating system takes a look at all of the data lanes and determines how many lanes it can allocate to the external device, responding with 'ok. This system is very busy so I need you to do 200 writes per second instead of 100000'

Generally, when people talk about how fast nvme is, it's not because its just 'better' than everything else. It's because its usually connected directly to the motherboard via m.2 slots. These m.2 slots usually (but not always) have dedicated data lanes to the cpu.

I know this stuff can be confusing and manufactures make it worse with how they advertise their products but I hope this helps.

I love this. I hope the devs get the financial support they need. If not, I hope they take what they learned and make a clone like Dota did. HotS was the only bright spot in the last 16 years of AB horseshittery, imo.

Lets go!! Looks great!

Its VERY dense. Both in terms of things to do and things to think about when building your character.

To be fair, I have very little dnd experience. Dnd vets probably have an easier time building their character/party.

The maps are huge and they do a fantastic job of turning, seemingly small tasks into lavish questlines.

I constantly find myself being like, "Ill just check out this little room in the back" Which turns into a 5 hour quest cause I discovered some button that opened a secret doorway behind a bookcase and took me to some whole new shit.

80 hours in, still not out of the starter area. 10/10.

This is terrifiying.

It wont load for me either.

I just need the error message to prove to me that it's real.