Benchmark, HDD vs SSD.

[Sotaris]

Even without an SSD the game loads areas noticeably faster. Large scale battles are probably a bit painful though unless you've got one heck of a gaming rig.



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This guy. lol But I play FF XIV primarily on my PS5. I play Warframe and WoW on my PC, though that will change for Warframe once they implement cross play. The load times aren't always the greatest but it works. I should probably look into an SSD eventually, but at this point my hardware is about...4 years old I think. I'll probably wait until my PC craps out before I go adding or replacing hardware, or maybe getting a new PC entirely.

Did you always play it on HDD? Cause it was updated recently how loading it handled so its much faster now than it was a year ago lol
I tried about a year or so ago to play on the PS4 version and play on SSD on PC.. Man I thought my console was broken when i was stuck in a loading screen for like 15 seconds or more.

[Vahlnir]

Did you always play it on HDD? Cause it was updated recently how loading it handled so its much faster now than it was a year ago lol
I tried about a year or so ago to play on the PS4 version and play on SSD on PC.. Man I thought my console was broken when i was stuck in a loading screen for like 15 seconds or more.

I think the last time I played FF XIV on PC was early Shadowbringers. My PC version is more of a backup I guess, just in case something happens to my console. Thankfully PS5 loading screens are lightning fast, maybe even faster than some PCs. But even with an HDD it was still pretty fast before they made the changes. I'm sure it's even faster now. When I bought my PC it was probably considered mid range. Now I have no doubt it is low range since any PC is outdated the moment it is released. But it still serves me well.