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Oh brother... >The game suffers an endless amount of video and audio stuttering issues unless you run it from an SSD or an NVMe (even then some people still ex
by Bluescreenbuddy 3y ago
Oh brother...
>The game suffers an endless amount of video and audio stuttering issues unless you run it from an SSD or an NVMe (even then some people still experience stuttering problems).
This has been an issue with many games for a while. Diablo 3 ran like dog shit and had audio issues on HDDs. TF2 runs like shit on HDDs.
This entire article is "Waaaahhhh I should be able to play modern Triple A games on shitty hardware"
- bayindirh 3y agoI don't think so. I can understand SSD/HDD difference and SSD requirement, which is probably due to tons of random, small reads. Yet, Valve has shown us it's possible to have great graphics, atmosphere and playability with modest hardware with HL2 series. They tuned it so hard, so it crashed on AMD systems like crazy in the beginning. They called gamers to their labs and debugged on real hardware when this happened. I remember installing 3+ hotfixes a day. They did HDR on a card (Radeon 9600XT) which supposedly can't do these things and ran with almost no performance penalty. I believe so many things can be optimized further, yet it's not seen worthy of the effort. When games are made for passion, but not for money primarily, everybody wins. When you want to milk something as quickly as possible, this happens.
- Pet_Ant 3y agoI have SDDs but my Steam library is on HDDs for cost efficiency. It's not "shitty" hardware, it's actually a reasonable choice. I'm sure has hell not going to futz around with copying the current game I want to play from HDD to SSD each time my mood changes. That said, I have 64 GB of RAM and use Primo Cache to cache my Steam drive, so I don't generally notice any stuttering after maybe the first minute of the game.