SSD vs Mechnical drives

[Ish 11]

I will assume this has been up in one form or another many times (Hope I don't enrage the moderators :), but I'm really here to ask a more direct question. Does anyone have first hand experiance with SSD vs say SATA 2 disks running the game on the same computer?

I've seen the vids, and all, but those were benchmarks etc. I'm talking about actual gameplay. Not the loading of the game or a mission but the actual gameplay. Even if you can run the game pretty stable, you usually get a dip when in cities (mostly Cherno). And i will guess this has too do with the larger variety of textures that has too load alongside the trees and ground textures.

This, obviously could cause stutter if the drive cannot fetch those textures quickly enough regardless how quick your CPU/GPU or RAM is.

So the question is this. Have anyone previously using a normal SATA disk, had improvements (less stuttering) after putting the game on a SSD disk?

Feels like it would be worth the dough if you could get rid of those last annoying stutters. Especielly after buying an otherwise powerful computer.

When I bought this computer, I took my old drives too save some money and "put it where it matter", or so I thought. Or maybe it's just a matter of arma being arma :rolleyes:

For what it's worth this is what I have on the built in "performance system" or whatever it's called. (Right click on My computer)

CPU - 7,5

RAM - 7,9

GPU on desktop - 7,8

GPU in games - 7,8

Primary HD - 5,9

It's quite obvious where my system is lacking. I'm curious if it's such a bottleneck as those figures would make me believe.

Edited December 10, 2009 by Ish

[TimRiceSE 10]

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=88629

Hi.

[Ish 11]

Ok.. So as long as I don't have 14 gb of RAM to spare, it no point bothering getting a quicker disk cause it wont take away that bottleneck for good?.. Interesting.

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