6950 Performance

[Capita]

Interesting. I've been running an SSD since day 1; I didn't realize it made that much of a difference. I figured it would only help out with between-zone loading screens.

It's due to Square's inability to utilize buffering properly, so we're forced to frontload a huge amount of data, which causes stuttering and frame loss. The SSD fixes this because it can actually read the data fast enough. Of course, you need fast enough RAM to keep up with the SSD and handle the data coming in. But most non-generic DDR3 RAM can do it easily. DDR2 is a little more selective, but it's fairly minor.