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• TRock@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Surely no games actually require a SSD?

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  • 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

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    • 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

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    • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s not a hard requirement.

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      • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        But it is a hard drive requirement.

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      • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I can personally guarantee that it is a hard requirement for Spider-Man and Ratchet

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      • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They stream data from it while you play, so if you don’t have an SSD you’ll get paused in game play.

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    • 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

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    • 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

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    • 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.

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      • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Forza Horizon 4 actually does include an SSD in its requirements. Thank you for reminding me about that.

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