Solid state hard drive question

[Lethaltyrant]

Ok thank you for the info for now i may wait just to see i just ordered a new video card and way more powerful CPU im going from dual core to quad core 3.8 ghz i was asking about the SSD because i heard someone mention it about load times but i dont want to reinstall OS lol i might upgrade memory too since that is relatively cheap

[Slynk]

Ok thank you for the info for now i may wait just to see i just ordered a new video card and way more powerful CPU im going from dual core to quad core 3.8 ghz i was asking about the SSD because i heard someone mention it about load times but i dont want to reinstall OS lol i might upgrade memory too since that is relatively cheap

You don't have to install your os on it, assuming you have an extra port for the drive. Just re-install FFXIV on it by itself. Make sure to format it properly.

[Slynk]

Ok thank you for the info for now i may wait just to see i just ordered a new video card and way more powerful CPU im going from dual core to quad core 3.8 ghz i was asking about the SSD because i heard someone mention it about load times but i dont want to reinstall OS lol i might upgrade memory too since that is relatively cheap

Also, if you post your system specs I (or others) could tell you where your bottleneck is. Upgrading components willy nilly doesn't necessarily result in an increase in performance.

[worldofneil]

i was asking about the SSD because i heard someone mention it about load times but i dont want to reinstall OS

Due to a RAID-1 rebuild hampering performance, I actually recently moved my FFXIV install from my mechanical 7200RPM drives to my SSD and was actually surprised because the game seems to take the same amount of time to load (although to be fair I didn't ever think it was slow before).

Before someone suggests, no my SSD isn't rubbish (120GB Corsair Force 3 GT) and my Windows install (which is also on it) boots up insanely fast. Having just watched the FFXIV process's disk activity for 10 minutes, it doesn't actually seem to use much disk activity at all, so unless you're finding the game unbearably slow for loading, I wouldn't bother spending your money on an SSD just for it. If you're going to spend money on an SSD do it right and reinstall Windows on it

You said about might add more memory, but didn't say how much you have. Possibly you don't have a lot and Windows is writing to the pagefile (virtual memory when the real memory runs out) which is causing you speed issues in which case adding more memory would fix that.

[Lethaltyrant]

Due to a RAID-1 rebuild hampering performance, I actually recently moved my FFXIV install from my mechanical 7200RPM drives to my SSD and was actually surprised because the game seems to take the same amount of time to load (although to be fair I didn't ever think it was slow before).

Before someone suggests, no my SSD isn't rubbish (120GB Corsair Force 3 GT) and my Windows install (which is also on it) boots up insanely fast. Having just watched the FFXIV process's disk activity for 10 minutes, it doesn't actually seem to use much disk activity at all, so unless you're finding the game unbearably slow for loading, I wouldn't bother spending your money on an SSD just for it. If you're going to spend money on an SSD do it right and reinstall Windows on it

You said about might add more memory, but didn't say how much you have. Possibly you don't have a lot and Windows is writing to the pagefile (virtual memory when the real memory runs out) which is causing you speed issues in which case adding more memory would fix that.

I have 4 gigs at the moment and was thinking of going to 8 possible

and slynk i figured the CPU was an issue it was an all in one package i bought at staples but i just bought this CPU expecting it in a few days Intel Core i5-3570 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 2500 BX80637i53570

[worldofneil]

I have 4 gigs at the moment and was thinking of going to 8 possible

4->8GB will likely give your entire computer a speed boost with pretty much everything. I don't know for sure if it'll help with this game (it seems to use about 1GB give or take) so if you had a lot of other things running it might not have that 1GB to use and would be using the pagefile and slower.

[Lethaltyrant]

4->8GB will likely give your entire computer a speed boost with pretty much everything. I don't know for sure if it'll help with this game (it seems to use about 1GB give or take) so if you had a lot of other things running it might not have that 1GB to use and would be using the pagefile and slower.

Thank you for the tip ill proabably grab another 4 gb stick and put it in i want to play the game with no issue and full enjoy the experience im hoping with all this upgrading ill be able to and enjoy other games as well with no issue