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• Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not a hard requirement.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But it is a hard drive requirement.

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    • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s not how computers work, but sure bro.

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    • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sure, you might.

        But Baulder’s Gate 3, which claims to require an SSD in it’s system requirements runs just fine on an HDD.

        It’s the developer making sure you get optimal performance.

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  • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It does technically work without it, just don’tgo over A class, don’t do sprints and there was 1 normal circuit that’s a tad big in a forest bit

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