Games that benefit greatly from a ssd?

[skipsneeky2]

Looking through my library and deciding which games should go on my ssd, more or less which ones should i put on my limited 180gb drive as i still need to buy a secondary mechanical drive for the rest.I play few sure but i do want my entire library on my pc soon.

The thought then occurred to me that i haven't seen a thread talking about the games that really make use of a ssd.The ones below i notice do....

BF4:this title seems to but a start of a match has ruined that i think with the timer function.

WOT:i just noticed a greatly improved loading time.

CA:faster time to the login screen,bit quicker map loading times.


So which games are you guys noticing that really benefit from a ssd?Which ones benefit little that the space is worth saving for something else?

 

[darkewaffle]

Anything with long load times. That's the only thing that it's going to help with.

 

[PrincessFrosty]

Consider what you play more frequently, some games are smaller and benefit less from better loading speeds, however if you play that game a lot then it might be better to put that on the SSD.

Consider any competitive advantages in multi player games, in some cases those who load first get a head start in the match, that can be a big boost.

Anything with long load times, typically those games with very large texture libraries.

I have a tendency to install my single player games to the SSD, finish them and move them off to a backup HDD, common multi players on go on the SSD and tend to stay there.

The biggest benefit is read speed during loading the best thing to do is test, some games don't benefit from the SSD for loading if they do a significant amount of processing on the CPU during the load period, the data rate on the SSD may not be the bottleneck, that differs from game to game.

 

[PowerYoga]

the total war games. my god the load times for battles....

Starcraft 2 and diablo 3 also benefited a lot from what I noticed. Maps loaded instantly on D3 for me where my friends were loading for a good 5~ seconds after zoning.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Anything with long load times. That's the only thing that it's going to help with.

Couple of my games have this silly timer at the start of a match,I guess any ssd user is starting the match exactly as you do but their map loading equals a little less timer time at worst?

BF4 has a timer.Titanfall has a timer and sometimes a cut scene before.BO2 has a timer.You load your maps quick but you still wait don't you?Joes ssd and Johns WD Black get a 2 minute cutscene in Titanfall when a map starts to load but you both enter and deploy into a battle exactly at the same time don't you?

 

[Raduque]

Any game that streams in assets on the fly.

I haven't tried a Tech5 game yet, but I imagine they shouldn't have the texture pop-in issues they do on spindle drives.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

The only benefit an SSD provides is quicker load times, so you'll see a benefit in single-player games (especially ones with long load times) or multiplayer games with no warm-up timer. The only time an SSD has offered me an improvement in multiplayer was in Counter-Strike when I could join a team before anyone else and get out of spawn quickly. It's more about getting rid of the frustration that comes with waiting for a game to load than offering any competitive advantage.

 

[Majes]

Path of Exile.
If you're a racer it's a requirement...

 

[Midwayman]

I'd imagine you'd drop less frames in general. If you need to load an asset, It'll be there in an instant. Large streaming world games without specific zones would probably see the largest benefit. That and multi-player without timers.

The other thing- Some games reload whenever you die to a checkpoint. Depending on how that's setup you may see much faster reloads.

 

[GaiaHunter]

GW2 for quick loading after waypointing during area wide zerg events.