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Starfield coming with SSD requirement (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Tammanytiger@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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This is a little unusual. Most games never explicitly say you need an SSD or a HDD - but Starfield does! This likely isn't a hard limit, as recommendations are often just that, but I cannot help but wonder what would happen if the game is run on an HDD?

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[–] Spitfire@pawb.social 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It’s likely not only for loading times, but faster loading/streaming of assets and textures. May reduce pop-in with a SSD compared to a HDD.

[–] prof@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it probably works on an HDD as well, but load times will be awful. I think this gets blown out of proportion. These AAA games or any game which had to load assets or whatever which exceeded available memory always had issues with load times etc. on HDD. So asking users to run it on an SSD is quite sensible to me.

We should argue though if a size of 125GB is actually necessary... Looks like it's time to upgrade my M.2 SSDs from 500GB to 2TB at least 😅

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