Game Load Time Benchmarking – Shootout With Six SSDs and One HDD

[Apoptosis]

Solid-State Drive (SSD) prices are continuing to drop and capacities are increasing, so more and more gamers are looking to install games on an SSD over a traditional spinning hard drive. One of the first things that a gamer will notice when moving from a hard drive to an SSD are reduced loading time in games between menus and cut scenes. Read on to see what happens when we take a look at game load times on seven drives!



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[KnightRid]

Anyone else old enough to remember RAM drives. Take part of your system memory and load a game onto it and run from there rather than a hard drive. Do they still have programs to split your system memory to do that? Is it possible now a days? With the size of the games you would need a lot of memory but would be sweet to see if performance was any better of stuck close to the pcie card times.

[Apoptosis]

Oh yeah... AMD for example has released a ton of 'speed of your system' software solutions...

Years ago it was RAMDisk - https://www.amd.com/en-us/products/memory/ramdisk

Most recently it has been Enmotus FuzeDrive - http://www.enmotus.com/amd

FuzeDrive Boot To Shoot: BattleFront II video (with horrible music and editing where at the start you can hear someone say okay and then loud ass music during the demo):