Star Citizen Alpha 3.9 HDD vs SSD loading times and gameplay experience comparison videos

MTom

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I decided to make these videos because apparently there are still many people who doesn't know that an SSD is pretty much essential for good gameplay experience in SC.
I decided to edit the videos in 2 parts.

First and most boring parts is the loading times comparison


With an SSD you pretty much load into the game, and it takes 30-60seconds to spawn in the game from the main menu.
With a HDD you are looking to 2-3 minutes of waiting to even get into the main menu and a good 5-6 minutes to spawn in.

Second part is more interesting, the gameplay experience


With an SSD you pretty much load in fast, and apart from small stutters when the game loads in a bunch of things at one (like after spawning in immediately) the gameplay is smoother, and mostly free of glitches.
With a HDD the game cannot stream assets fast enough, resulting in black textures, disappearing elevators, glitches, stutters, and even the music is stuttering.

Computer Specs
Gigabyte X570 elite motherboard
AMD Ryzen 3700X CPU
32GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM
Palit GTX 1080 VGA
Corsair MP510 NVME 512 GB SSD
CT500MC500 512GB SATA SSD
Samsung HD103SJ 1TB 7200RPM HDD

Gameplay setting
2560x1440
Highest graphics setting
Vsync OFF
Motionblur OFF
 
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