Oh definitely, game sizes are getting extreme and I prefer smaller indie games now 🥲
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ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
with this I can store at least 3 modern “AAA” games
Mandragora@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 days ago
More like zero, cause modern AAA games require an NVME (or st least an SSD) and this is a good old fashioned 7200 RPM drive.
TRock@feddit.dk 2 days ago
Surely no games actually require a SSD?
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 days ago
A lot of modern AAA games require an SSD, actually.
On top of my head: Cyberpunk, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Space remake, Starfield, Baulder’s Gate 3, Palworld, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
TyrantTW@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Indeed, as others have said this isn’t a hard requirement. Anyone with a handheld (e.g. Steam Deck) playing off a uSD card uses a device that’s an order of magnitude slower for sequential I/O
tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 2 days ago
It’s not a hard requirement.
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Both Cyberpunk and BG3 work flawlessly on the external USB hard drive that I use. The loading times suffer a bit, but not to an unplayable degree, not even close
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Cyberpunk literally has an HDD mode, I play it of an HDD every day.
With sufficient ram to load everything in you’ll just have longer load times, no hdd hitchiness
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Forza Horizon 4 and 5 don’t say they require an SSD I think, but when I had it on my hard drive any cars that did over 250kph caused significant world loading issues, as in I’d fall out of the world because it didn’t load the map.