Games from SSD or RAM

[arknor]

Skyrim, Fallout, League of Legends, BF3/BF4, anything with loading screens really.

even indie games benefit because they tend to have a billion small files in their directories

something mechanical struggle with because of the access times etc and having to rotate to that specific bit of data where as an SSD just polls them almost instantly

 

[TheVoice]

Windows is on an SSD, Apps are in D:\Program Files\

Terrible idea, your programs should be on the SSD along with Windows. There's no point having them on a different drive/partition anyway, many/most programs won't work after a Windows re-install so you'd need to re-install them all again anyway.

 

[Karathez]

15 minutes? You're kidding!

Well, surely that will be the setup etc... I have noticed that the loading is a very small part of any game, and so sure, the setup or the data is the biggie.
Even the loading / saving between maps or levels etc on my games have all been fairly instant from the HD and so trying to find the difference between instant, and even more instanter ( ?? ) has been a bit of a needle in a haystack.
But 15 minutes? Are you sure you are not loading it off tape?

Hehe yes I am very sure, I have never known a game quite like it for the long start up.

Terrible idea, your programs should be on the SSD along with Windows. There's no point having them on a different drive/partition anyway, many/most programs won't work after a Windows re-install so you'd need to re-install them all again anyway.

Most games you can just right click the exe in your games folder & send to desktop, no real need to reinstall.

Putting your games on a seperate partition is an old trick that means if anything happens to your OS drive you dont lose all your saves/settings/downloads, although that brings me to a personal gripe with companies shoving saves/settings in a documents folder which you can forget to back up sometimes....

Personally its a habit I still have from days of frequent reinstalls on win95/98, but as I stated there is still a perfectly sensible reason to do it.

 

[andy_mk3]

OP, you sound like me with your anal/OCD ways of sorting drives

 

[Dimi]

^ Where's the fapfap drive?

 

[arknor]

Fapdrive is most likely a 64gb usb

 

[andy_mk3]

^ Where's the fapfap drive?

Not that easily found

 

[TheVoice]

Most games you can just right click the exe in your games folder & send to desktop, no real need to reinstall.

I know, that's why I said programs.

 

[atpbx]

I have 3 HDDs and a hybrid drive.

I couldn't tell you where anything apart from C:\windows and E\program files are.

It's the PC equivalent of a floordrobe.