#3506812 - 01/30/12 02:41 AM
Any one using an SSD drive with their flight sims? IL2?
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Deltahawkoz2004
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Looking at getting an SSD drive perhaps, hearing good things re OS load times. But howabout in flight simulations like IL2? Would the major benefit be in load times for missions? Or is there also a noticeable difference ingame, smoother, quicker?
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#3506967 - 01/30/12 12:23 PM
Re: Any one using an SSD drive with their flight sims? IL2?
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I have Rise of Flight loaded onto an SSD drive. Really helps load times, especially since I have all the skin packs installed. On a standard 7200rpm hard drive, mission load times were becoming extremely slow with all the custom skins being loaded. After I loaded RoF onto the SSD, missions load much faster.
I'm considering getting another SSD to use for MS FSX. I'm sure an SSD would be beneficial to all modern flight sims, and most older ones.
But for Il-2 an SSD is not necessary. Heck, I was running IL2 off an external drive (USB 3.0, but still an external drive) and didn't notice any difference until I went to check my desktop shortcut. And that's a modded install with UP3 and HSFX.
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#3506998 - 01/30/12 01:35 PM
Re: Any one using an SSD drive with their flight sims? IL2?
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I have the two installs of IL2 I play the most on a separate SSD drive. I don't have the OS on it but the game is. Loads super fast and doesn't stutter as bad if the game has to go to the drive to get more data. Granted, most of what the game needs gets loaded into RAM and the game seldom needs to fetch more from the drive.
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#3507391 - 01/30/12 09:56 PM
Re: Any one using an SSD drive with their flight sims? IL2?
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We have over 80 ssd drives in our lab Delta and have IL2 1946, ROF and LOMAC FC2 installed for group play after hours, and we have had a few burps with the latest OCZ Vertex 2.15 firmware that is not compatible with many ASUS motherboards, but except that, smoothness across the board and across many thousands of hours now.
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#3507565 - 01/31/12 01:33 AM
Re: Any one using an SSD drive with their flight sims? IL2?
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Any comparative load times?
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#3509957 - 02/03/12 02:56 AM
Re: Any one using an SSD drive with their flight sims? IL2?
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There's only two downsides to SSDs right now. High price per GB compared to traditional drives and write performance is not improved as much as read performance. I like quoting Tom's Hardware that "even a low-end SSD will typically perform 80% faster than a high-end traditional hard drive".
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#3510117 - 02/03/12 12:02 PM
Re: Any one using an SSD drive with their flight sims? IL2?
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Any comparative load times? , but here's a couple YouTube videos comparing game load times from SSD vs HDD (top link), OS boot time on SSD vs HDD (center link) and a Tom's Hardware article on performance differences between SSD and HDD in video editing and some games (bottom link). http://youtu.be/j84eEjP-RL4http://youtu.be/FQpiZ44GyYUhttp://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/video-editing-performance-ssd-hdd,3089.htmlQuote from the article above: SSDs let you run multiple demanding tasks simultaneously without the I/O bottleneck that would otherwise hammer a mechanical disk. ....
The advantage is quite tangible, as you're no longer tied down to just one storage-intensive operation. Naturally, we still recognize the cost premium associated with SSDs, so we still recommend a tiered storage strategy. Use an SSD as your boot and system drive. Install your most performance-sensitive applications to it, and dedicate a little space for apps like Premiere Pro to work. Then, pile all of your documents, videos, music, and pictures onto a hard drive.
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#3510140 - 02/03/12 12:58 PM
Re: Any one using an SSD drive with their flight sims? IL2?
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you're no longer tied down to just one storage-intensive operation But most of us are onlyrunning one storage-intensive operation anyway... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ME5Dsas2K8 This is an interesting one for FSX load - significantly better, but no comment on running performance. Cheers Keith
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