Install Games on SSD

[icu222much]

I have installed my games on my SSD, and my OS (win7) on a 7200 hard drive. Since the OS is installed not on a SSD, I'm wondering if my loading times for games will suffer?

 

[sub.mesa]

Yes, during loading you will load stuff from your system disk, not just the game directory. However, if you start the same games, do not restart regularly and have enough RAM memory, you will keep the portions on HDD you have to read in RAM memory.

 

[icu222much]

Sorry, just to be clear:

When I first run the game, my computer will be loading the game from my system drive instead of my game directory. However, once my game has loaded, my computer will be running the game from my game directory?

So in my case, as my OS is installed on my hard drive and my games are installed on my SSD, I will only see an increase in load time once my games have loaded?

 

[sub.mesa]

You have your operating system on HDD and game on SSD. You will experience faster game loading times versus people having only HDD and no SSD, since the HDD has to cope with both system I/O and I/O for loading game data. However, your performance will be lower versus a solution where both the operating system and game data resides on an SSD. This is because during the start of the game libraries like DirectX and others will have to be loaded.

But, if you do not restart your computer, these portions on HDD will stay in RAM memory. So after starting the same game a few times, it will be faster than the first time. This is due to RAM filecache.

In general, your operating system should be on SSD. Games have some benefit but SRT may be a good compromise in your case.

 

[icu222much]

I see, thank you