On a Steam Deck, it is noticeable. Some blame the SD reader itself, which might not give the best speeds, but there’s a noticeable difference between a very expensive very fast SD, and the still faster internal storage. Load times on heavy games groom the SD can be… Long.
python@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Oh, interesting! Is it just the initial load times, or is there noticeable lag? Because the former might be fine, but the latter would be a total motion sickness nightmare in VR
iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I mean, I’m talking on my experience on the Steam Deck, but I think it still might apply. Load times are slower in general. I reckon if a game streams assets on the fly heavily (a GTA-like game, a heavy open world game), that might put it to the test. But I haven’t had cases where it just struggles to keep the game flow because of storage streaming speed. It’s just…you feel it installing and handling big file chunks is a slower process in general.