What games benefit from being on a SSD ?

YesImAfroJack · 1 Dec 2012 at 21:25

As the title asks.
just curious if there is a benefit to having games on a SSD.
I know boot times for the OS are a huge benefit.
but gaming-wise is there much point ?

yhack · 1 Dec 2012 at 21:26

Fast load times.

PapaLazaru · 1 Dec 2012 at 21:31

I moved both BF3 and Planetside 2 to an SSD and the load times are barely a few seconds now.

almoststew1990 · 1 Dec 2012 at 21:31

To be honest, I haven't noticed a massive increase in game load time. Windows 7 boot up time, and applications around the desktop yeah, but not really in games. Slow RAM maybe?

randal · 1 Dec 2012 at 21:33

BF3 is the one I've noticed most, both my friend and I are on decent BB connections. His is better than mine by all accounts, and I'm always in game before him.

He's on a mechanical drive, and initiates the game and sends me an invite so he has a head start for loading too.

Omaeka · 1 Dec 2012 at 21:37

Skyrim, Far Cry etc are hugely sped up, and Skyrim gets a decent performance boost.

YesImAfroJack · 1 Dec 2012 at 21:40

so in short , any games that need to load frequently ?

d_brennen · 1 Dec 2012 at 21:42

PapaLazaru said:
I moved both BF3 and Planetside 2 to an SSD and the load times are barely a few seconds now.

On my mechanicals I still get in with seconds to spare before rounds begin. What's the benefit of waiting 30 seconds nearly alone?

Moothead2 · 1 Dec 2012 at 21:44

S.T.A.L.K.E.R games.

b0rn2sk8 · 1 Dec 2012 at 21:52

All games.

olivier renault · 1 Dec 2012 at 22:05

Skyrim, WoW. Made some massive improvement in for Mass Effect 2 as well. Those loading times used to really annoy me.

IIDeathCubeKII · 1 Dec 2012 at 22:10

In Chivalry I am always the first person to load into the round, also arma 2 is pretty damn fast to now. Only downside is moving games on and off when you want to play a different one.

YesImAfroJack · 1 Dec 2012 at 22:14

starting to think my original plan to get a 60Gb SSD will now be 120Gb or 180Gb

Kosmiche · 1 Dec 2012 at 22:23

IIDeathCubeKII said:
In Chivalry I am always the first person to load into the round, also arma 2 is pretty damn fast to now. Only downside is moving games on and off when you want to play a different one.

Chivalry loads in a few seconds on my mechanical.

HangTime · 1 Dec 2012 at 22:29

-Any multiplayer game where there is an advantage from entering the map faster (i.e. no countdown, start playing as soon as you join)
-Any game that streams textures from the disk during actual gameplay - I believe STALKER and possibly Oblivion do so
-Any game where there is a large amount of content to load at any point (typically level load) - in most cases this is games with high resolution textures (as a rough guide, any game using over 1.5GB VRAM will likely be loading a lot of data from the disk at some point)

walk on · 1 Dec 2012 at 22:55

diablo 3 is a must on a ssd, as is black light retribution

tintin82 · 1 Dec 2012 at 23:57

I installed a 512gb vertex 4 specifically for games.
Fast load times are great, but the biggest bonus for me was finally getting rid of micro stutters.
I play a lot of sims FSX and DCS series, every time a new texture was to load of the mechanical drive it would stutter, not a great deal, but enough and frequently enough to detract from the otherwise smooth gameplay.

99Androidguy777 · 2 Dec 2012 at 00:00

Especially the Arma games..

IIDeathCubeKII · 2 Dec 2012 at 01:57

Eames said:
Chivalry loads in a few seconds on my mechanical.

Ah, never played it on anything other than an ssd so had nothing to compare. It's handy for me because I always choose the Mason Order, attacking blue is etched into my mind and I always end up team hitting if I'm Agatha.

Mark A · 2 Dec 2012 at 03:40

I put Skyrim on my SSD and it made 0 difference for load times. This is one game I was really hoping would improve as the load times can get annoying, especially when its fully modded.