Possible to use more computer resources?

[Geesus]

^This, all of the slowdown were gone the day I changed to a SSD.

SS or it didn't happen. You 2 are the only 2 people I have spoken with over 2 years that say a SSD helped them with video game response. It may have helped with the bottle neck of your GPU but it's only a very expensive band aid not a true fix.

[Loth]

SS or it didn't happen. You 2 are the only 2 people I have spoken with over 2 years that say a SSD helped them with video game response. It may have helped with the bottle neck of your GPU but it's only a very expensive band aid not a true fix.

An SSD is a bandage, but a working one, there is no doubt about that.
The problem arise from the sub-system streaming data from the disk drive, and it is woefully inadequate.

The most common place to notice this is in town, where, if you are on a mechanical HDD you will notice a lot of stuttering, this is when the system is loading data, not because it is overburdened by the geometry.

I used to have a setup of two Raptor disks in Raid0 for my games drive, this had the stuttering, changing that for an SSD made it all but go away.

I agree, for FPS performance an SSD should not make a difference, however for this game it does, as it seems to halt other processes when loading data, and thus the stuttering occurs.
So, giving fast access to data via an SSD or even better a RAM drive is currently the workaround to the issue (hopefully fixed with the new engine in 2.0).

[Soukyuu]

SS or it didn't happen.

Because SS show how much more fluid the game runs on a SSD? ;x

You 2 are the only 2 people I have spoken with over 2 years that say a SSD helped them with video game response. It may have helped with the bottle neck of your GPU but it's only a very expensive band aid not a true fix.

FFXIV is an exception simply because it's has all files scattered across the HDD instead of having them packed/cached like all normal games do, which leads us to the GPU not getting the data it needs in time (= not a GPU problem) that's why you see the GPU load dropping.

You are free to believe what you want Geesus. Better yet, try it yourself.