Originally posted by: shabby
Originally posted by: Dorkenstein
What's the most inexpensive SSD that will, at the very least, reduce or eliminate texture pop-up in games for me? I'm using a normal samsung sata 2 drive right now and the texture pop in is grating on my nerves, even after tweaking the dickens out of the game.
Which game is this? I though texture pop-up is due to short drawing distance.
While in theory short drawing distance can cause texture popping, I think he is referring to the Unreal Engine 3 texture popping specifically which has nothing to do with drawing distance.
It is caused by the game letting you start playing before all the higher definition texture loaded into ram.
Instead of pausing the game with a "please wait while loading textures" every time you do a level transition (say, by taking an elevator in mass effect), it loads the essentials and low res textures, then lets you start playing, and loads higher quality textures as you are playing, so you will stand and look at a thing right next to the player, and suddenly it turns into a higher quality version of itself.
faster drive really helps. More ram would really help if and only if the game was programmed to aggressively cache into ram and utilize large amounts (many games limit their ram use unnecessarily... especially UE3 games since they tend to be multi platform and the shitbox 360 only has 512MB of ram).
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