Does Faster NVMe Storage Matter In Gaming? Gen5 vs Gen4 vs Gen3 SSDs Compared In 8 Games : pcgaming

[–] justdoitlater@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tldr: there is no diff

[–] perslue@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

Secret tl;dr: gen4

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

If it's NVMe, it's already as fast as it needs to be.

Comparing HDD to NVMe, though... Yea, it makes a big difference! I get frequent, near constant stuttering in some open world games like Elden Ring.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

Ofc not.

With so many 120+GB games gen3 SSDs speed is not the limiting factor.

[–] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

On my system with raid0 dual pcie4.0 nvme drives, most of the time is spent decompressing and processing the data. There is always going to be a bottleneck somewhere, whether it is the drive, cpu, gpu etc.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Right, so I'm not a low-level PC hardware expert or anything, but:

We only got resizable BAR like a couple of years ago, and it was very much a premium enthusiast feature at the time. Are modern engines and the games built for them optimised to expect resizable BAR as a baseline yet? If not that will still be a limiting factor right?

I thought the reason resizable BAR was introduced was because we hit the limits of what the previous approach allowed regardless of the speed of the link

i.e. of course it doesn't make a difference with games today, they're built targeting hardware configurations that will limit the utility of extra storage bandwidth

Reiterating that I might have this entirely wrong, so I'm more than happy to be corrected here

[+] helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] kn33@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"fine" is a bit generous there

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

It really is fine. Chrono Trigger plays great loading off an SD on my Miyoo Mini Plus.

OnionOS has completey changed my gaming expectations.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Obvious bait is obvious. But sbc gaming is really awesome, just not the subject in this context.

If it runs fine on an SD card, it also runs fine on a HDD. You don't need to compare it to an SSD.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

sorry, replied to wrong post

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Onion (and Garlic) is so good, almost everything just works & if you want to fiddle with settings there are so many.

Also it never crashed on me.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What makes Onion so revolutionary is the quick boot directly into the game where you left off. Then when you stop playing, it automatically autosaves and turns completely off- not sleep like Android, but completely off so the battery is never dead.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Exactly, I don't want an android console, or e-reader (not even a phone actually, but let's wait for Linux).

If not for such conveniences, I wouldn't play as much.

I also use the quick insta-switch to the previous game played. And I like that basically any game even played just automatically remains suspended for you to continue at any time (no need for manually saving states, tho you can set shortcuts for that too ofc).

[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Starfield had lots of problems, but I installed it on my slower (larger) NVME SSD first, that has like 5-700mb of read speed and it failed to load peoples’ faces and hands. On one of my faster drives (>2000mb read), had no problems. Not undermining the video but that’s the last time I saw a difference in a modern game.

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