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I'm a little doubtful, on the basis that it would take HDD users about three minutes to load into the game (probably 4, by the time you start doing something with all those assets). I know HDDs are slow, but 4 minutes of loading is extremely excessive by any standard.

Also, on PS3 it runs in less than 256 MB of RAM... where is it loading these assets to? Most games have RAM consumption on the order of 4-8 GB in most situations, not all of that is assets, and not all of that is read sequentially.



Planetside 2 would take 4+ minutes to fully load on the HDD before I upgraded to an SSD. Around 40 seconds on the SATA SSD. Haven't tried it on the m.2 yet.


You would think that, yet new World of Tanks patch introduced 10-20 second map load times for HDD users :-) SATA SSDs load in 1-2 seconds.




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