Ati/AMD Some graphical issues.

[origamikitsune]

Yes it is a problem. This game constantly reads-writes and in a horribly inefficient manner. This game caches a whole lot of info, and from what I understand does not handle the read and write buffers terribly well.

Many, many people have reported that upgrading to better hard drives, or switching over to Raid 0 arrays, or switching to SSDs having improved or, in the case of SSDs, removed the stuttering issues.

Having a 7200rpm SATA2 drive does not inherently mean you have a great hard drive. That's like saying that my race car has X top speed on the speedometer, there for it is better than your race car. There are a whole lot of factors involved beyond one ore two stats.

That said, any game that has the hard drive as a bottle neck needs to improved because omg, that's such a basic function. -.-

[Coldfire]

Yes it is a problem. This game constantly reads-writes and in a horribly inefficient manner. This game caches a whole lot of info, and from what I understand does not handle the read and write buffers terribly well.

It's the other way around: the game almost doesn't cache at all. There's no precaching and old data of characters that ain't on screen anymore is lost after a few seconds. I think this is due to PS3 restrictions... pretty sad. We play on PC and have to live with PS3 restrictions :/

[Archadius]

Many, many people have reported that upgrading to better hard drives, or switching over to Raid 0 arrays, or switching to SSDs having improved or, in the case of SSDs, removed the stuttering issues.

Question! Why are SSD so much more expensive for a smaller capacity? 1TB SATA is $500 less than a 256GB SSD. I can't speak for others, but I would not survive with a 256GB HD, even with my 2TB external HD handy, this is 2011 not 2003 D:

[Coldfire]

Question! Why are SSD so much more expensive for a smaller capacity? 1TB SATA is $500 less than a 256GB SSD. I can't speak for others, but I would not survive with a 256GB HD, even with my 2TB external HD handy, this is 2011 not 2003 D:

Because Apple buys all the flash chips for their devices and the production is pretty slow compared to magnetic disks. It will get cheaper in the near future.

[Archadius]

Because Apple buys all the flash chips for their devices and the production is pretty slow compared to magnetic disks. It will get cheaper in the near future.

I love how you remembered I'm running on iMac lmao

Thanks! I will keep this in mind for when I make my next upgrade (also will keep my eyes on the GPUs they offer)

[Kusuku]

Thank you for your answers. I have to consider buying a SSD to this game.